CORKAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corkage mean? 

• CORKAGE (noun)
  The noun CORKAGE has 1 sense:

1. a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises

  Familiarity information: CORKAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORKAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("corkage" is a kind of...):

service charge; service fee (a percentage of a bill (as at a hotel or restaurant) added in payment for service)