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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

load-shedding \load-shedding\ n. The act or process of disconnecting the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply. [WordNet 1.5] Loadsman
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

load-shedding n 1: cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply