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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun poundage has 4 senses
- poundage(n = noun.possession) Array - a charge based on weight measured in pounds; Array is a kind of charge
- poundage(n = noun.possession) Array - a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals; Array is a kind of fee
- poundage(n = noun.attribute) Array - weight expressed in pounds; Array is a kind of weight
- poundage(n = noun.act) impounding, impoundment, internment - placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law; Array is a kind of seizure
has particulars: drug bust, drugs bust
Derived form verb pound6
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poundage, n.
- A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission. [1913 Webster]
- A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound. Burrill. Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
poundage, v. t.
To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [1913 Webster]
poundage, n. [See 3d Pound.].
- Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound. [1913 Webster]
- A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
poundage, n.
1 a commission or fee of so much per pound sterling or weight.
2 a percentage of the total earnings of a business, paid as wages.
3 a person's weight, esp. that which is regarded as excess.
1 a commission or fee of so much per pound sterling or weight.
2 a percentage of the total earnings of a business, paid as wages.
3 a person's weight, esp. that which is regarded as excess.
THESAURUS
poundage
accommodation, avoirdupois, beef, beefiness, burden, capacity, carriage, cartage, content, cordage, deadweight, drayage, expressage, fatness, freight, freightage, gravity, gross weight, haulage, heaviness, heft, heftiness, limit, liveweight, measure, neat weight, net, net weight, overbalance, overweight, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, quantity, room, space, stowage, tonnage, underweight, volume, weight, weightinessROGET THESAURUS
poundage
Discount
N discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance, qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage, rebate, rebatement, backwardation, contango, salvage, tare and tret, sale, bargain, half price, price war, wholesale, wholesale price, dealer's price, trade price, coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon, store coupon, manufacturer's coupon, double coupon discount, triple coupon discount, discounting, at a discount, below par, at wholesale, have a friend in the business.
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