ˈdronage [f. drone n.1 + -age. Cf. dotage.] The condition of a drone. 1846Ld. Cockburn Let. in Blackie's Biog. x. (1895) 232 We only aggravate the drone-age of the drones.1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 103 Many a man..is reduced into a state of dronage by him [the usurer].