Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business of carrying by express; the charge for carrying anything, as a parcel or message, by express.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The charge for carrying a parcel by express.
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- noun The
fee for carrying aparcel byexpress .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rapid transport of goods
Etymologies
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Examples
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Deliver it a million hence; (Survivor pays expressage.)
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If the maps are returned, the charge will be $1.00 covering the expressage both ways; this $1.00, however, will not be lost to purchaser, but will be credited on other maps, charts, or globes that may be purchased.
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A guest was never permitted to pay for anything; expressage, laundry and all incidentals were as free as air.
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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Jack was a little worried about his father, and made an early start the next morning, carrying the mail and expressage.
Jack of the Pony Express Frank V. Webster
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You're always paying expressage on fossils and bugs and sea-weeds and trash.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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Bob took the paper and read "378 pounds turtles, at 30 cents per pound -- $75.60, less $2.63 expressage -- $72.97."
Hidden Treasure John Thomas Simpson
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The Department will be able to stand a reasonable expense for cost of nuts, expressage, etc.
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Will give you large samples if you will pay expressage.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor
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"Do you always figure out things?" asked the banker, apparently much interested that Bob had taken the trouble to find out the rate and figure the cost of the expressage to Pittsburgh.
Hidden Treasure John Thomas Simpson
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He stated that this was obtained in a damage suit which he brought against this Company because they wanted to charge him expressage of something like 40¢ on
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck
qms commented on the word expressage
Oh, what did that yellow slip presage;
A baleful or jubilant message?
What‘s won or what’s lost
To merit the cost
Of telegram’s costly expressage?
July 20, 2018