Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or service of towing.
- noun A charge for towing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of towing.
- noun A charge for towing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of towing.
- noun The price paid for towing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
towing - noun A
charge for towing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Cue phone call to The Darling G, phone call to local garage, purchase of towing cable, towage of Vectra to garage, signing of job sheet and pending Credit Card Ouch.)
A Letter to Myself Dungeekin 2009
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(Cue phone call to The Darling G, phone call to local garage, purchase of towing cable, towage of Vectra to garage, signing of job sheet and pending Credit Card Ouch.)
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Boskalis said that equipment utilization across its businesses was under pressure due to lower volumes and increased competition in the first half of the year, although its revenues rose 9.6% to €1.25 billion $1.80 billion due to last year's acquisition of towage and salvage company Smit.
Boskalis Warns Of Falling Infrastructure Investment Robin van Daalen 2011
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You bend it back on itself to make a nonsticky handle for towage.
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All he had to do was to race off to his consignees and stop payment of the towage bill before Falk had the time to get in and lift the money.
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But amongst men of his own stature, or nearly, this frank use of his advantages, in such matters as the awful towage bills for instance, caused much impotent gnashing of teeth.
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And when we rose not a word had been said about towage!
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He was sure to get his own extortionate terms out of me for towage whether he frowned or smiled.
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Because of the alleged fraud a clause in the towage contract exempting the tug owners and charterers from liability for the loss of Bos 400, allegedly does not apply.
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If necessary, we had to be ready towage that battle, and to do so in conditions of full success and victory, which are the conditions that were given there.
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