Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The charge for mailing an item.
- n. The stamps, labels, or printing placed on an item to be mailed as evidence of payment of this charge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of posting or going by post; hence, passage; journey.
- n. The rate or charge levied on letters or other articles conveyed by post.
- n. The hire of a horse for traveling; the sum paid for the hire.
- n. The sending of letters, etc., by post.
Wiktionary
- n. The charge for posting an item
- n. The postage stamp, or similar token, affixed to an item of post as evidence of payment
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the charge for mailing something
- n. a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid
Examples
“(Free normal postage or + $2.50 for register post) * I will not be responsible if your item get damage or lost due to postage*”
“Looks like the only way you should have to pay for the increase in postage is if you mail it at a postal counter.”
Sound Politics: Mail Ballot Horror Show (XI): Postage issues
“Just for my own information, I just took the time to see what a book that cost $17.96 on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble would cost me in postage (and custom's duty in the case of Amazon direct) here in Mazatlán.”
“I don't think postage is a good use of our family's money.”
“Our person wishes she could send you a get well package, but postage from the U.S. to your home is expensive.”
“I just Gore Vidal The Last Empire for 1p on Amazon and the postage was a lot less than the petrol and parking.”
“A letter with our name and address handwritten in blue ink can mean a long-lost lover resurfacing or Publishers Clearinghouse telling us we may already be a winner (the postage is the giveaway -- lovers pay full freight).”
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“For the service done by this line in carrying the mails we pay annually the sum of $46,000, being, as estimated, the full sea and United States inland postage, which is the limit fixed by law.”
“From its square and relatively small area, it is sometimes jocularly called the postage-stamp province; yet it is not less than”
“I had a couple of cabs, and the postage was a tanner, with another twopence for registration.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘postage’.
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The -ages of Man(-age)
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manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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Tag! You're it.
tag, tags, tagging, Tagalog, baronetage, montage, tagalong, Rabindranath Tagore, uredostage, ragtag and bobtail, voltage, price tag and 95 more...
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-age
condition; result of; account; number of; cost of; place of; collection of; home of; to act
marriage, acreage, postage, steerage, peerage, hermitage, forage, Hermitage, pilgrimage, baggage, blockage, carnage and 24 more...
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