Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Transportation of goods on a lighter.
- noun The fee charged for lightering.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of unloading cargo into a lighter.
- noun The price paid for unloading a ship by means of a lighter, or for conveying goods or merchandise in lighters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter.
- noun The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
fee paid forconveyance ofgoods on alighter . - noun The act of
unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters
- noun the transportation of goods on a lighter
Etymologies
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Examples
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Labor forceby occupation: note: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
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Cocos (Keeling) Islandsnote: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
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Labor force - by occupation: note: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage worker operations; tourism employs others
The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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These include an annual payment of eighty thousand francs ($15,440), and the refunding of lighterage and pilotage dues, to the North German Lloyd on their East Asiatic and Australian lines; and fifteen hundred francs
Manual of Ship Subsidies Edwin M. Bacon
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Labor force - by occupation: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Labor force - by occupation: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Having brought the cacao to the coast, there yet remains the lighterage to the ocean liner, which lies anchored some two miles from the shore, rising and falling to the great rollers from the broad
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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