Break bulk or breaking bulk may refer to:
- Break bulk cargo, a shipping term for any loose material that must be loaded individually, and not in Intermodal containers nor in bulk as with oil or grain. Used in this connection, "breakbulk" is often one word.
- Breaking bulk (law), a legal term for taking anything out of a package or parcel or in any way destroying its entirety.
Famous quotes containing the words breaking and/or bulk:
“Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.”
—Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)
“The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)