overage
See also: over-age
English
Etymology 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English overage
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈəʊvəɹˈeɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Adjective
overage (comparative more overage, superlative most overage)
- Having an age that is greater than a stipulated minimum.
- Too old to be of use in a particular situation.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
too old to be of use in a particular situation
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Verb
overage (third-person singular simple present overages, present participle overaging, simple past and past participle overaged)
- To have too long an aging process.
- 1997, George Murray, Handbook of Materials Selection for Engineering Applications, →ISBN, page 92:
- The heat-treatable alloys may overage (soften) with time at temperature due to the coalescence of the precipitate particles which, when present in a smaller dispersed size, enhance roomtemperature strength.
- 2013, Mahmoud M. Farag, Materials and Process Selection for Engineering Design, →ISBN:
- Structures that have been precipitation hardened to peak values may overage, and steels that have been hardened and tempered may overtemper.
Etymology 2
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈəʊvəɹɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
overage (countable and uncountable, plural overages)
- A surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account.
- Excess; a state of being more than it ought to be.
- You're entitled to bring a bag weighing fifty pounds onto the airplane, and will be charged extra for any overage.
- 1998, “Daysleeper”, in Up, performed by R.E.M.:
- Receiving department, 3 A.M. / Staff cuts have socked up the overage. / Directives are posted, no callbacks, complaints. / Everywhere is calm.
- 2009 May 14, Marguerite Reardon, “Verizon Netbook to hit stores this weekend”, in CNN[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 5 August 2009:
- The overage charge on this plan has been reduced to 10 cents per megabyte over the limit. Previously, the company charged 25 cents per megabyte for overages.
- (property law) Any additional sums payable following the purchase of land, calculated on a prearranged basis, on the occurrence of certain specified events that are deemed to increase the value of that land; usually in the context of the development and further sale of that land.
Translations
surplus of inventory
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *upér
- English terms prefixed with over-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂óyu
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ey- (life)
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