Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Duty paid for goods brought on shore.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Duty paid for goods brought on shore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A right to use a shore, as to land goods, or a fee or
duty for such right.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
shore + -age
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Examples
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The largest of these, Waigiou, is not less than seventy-two miles from one side to the other; the low shorage consists mainly of swamp and morass, while the banks, which run up steeply, are surrounded by coral reefs, and are full of small caves hollowed out by the waves.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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And with a host of developers churning out games for iPad, mobile devices and Web, there's no shorage of screens to play on, perhaps making the console experience less relevant.
Fast Company Alex Porter 2010
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a shorage of student accommodation, it said on Wednesday.
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