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PORTERAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porterage mean? 

PORTERAGE (noun)
  The noun PORTERAGE has 2 senses:

1. the charge for carrying burdens by portersplay

2. the transportation of burdens by portersplay

  Familiarity information: PORTERAGE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PORTERAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The charge for carrying burdens by porters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

charge (the price charged for some article or service)

Derivation:

porter (carry luggage or supplies)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The transportation of burdens by porters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

carry (the act of carrying something)

Derivation:

porter (carry luggage or supplies)


 Context examples 


When Skinsky had come to him, he had taken him to the ship and handed over the box, so as to save porterage.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She's at school, sir, said Mr. Peggotty, wiping the heat consequent on the porterage of Peggotty's box from his forehead; she'll be home, looking at the Dutch clock, in from twenty minutes to half-an-hour's time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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