[1560–70; harbor + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1560–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: propagate, radial, ritual, sympathy, vertex-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)
Examples of 'harborage' in a sentence
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Salmonella harborage sites were determined in experimentally infected chickens and turkeys.
Claire-Sophie Rimet, John J. Maurer, John J. Maurer, Larissa Pickler, Lisa Stabler,Kasey K. Johnson, Roy D. Berghaus, Ana M. Villegas, Margie Lee, Margie Lee, MargieLee, Monique França 2019, 'Salmonella Harborage Sites in Infected Poultry That May Contribute to Contaminationof Ground Meat', Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systemshttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00002/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Findings showed the propensity for pathogen harborage in utensils and wash water in scenario one.
Jeffrey A. Clark, Hillary E. Norwood, Jack A. Neal, Sujata A. Sirsat 2018, 'Quantification of pathogen cross-contamination during fresh and fresh-cut producehandling in a simulated foodservice environment', AIMS Agriculture and Foodhttp://www.aimspress.com/article/10.3934/agrfood.2018.4.467/fulltext.html. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Use of a fluorescent dust provided visual confirmation that contaminated bed bugs transfer dust to untreated bed bugs in harborage.
Yasmin Akhtar, Murray B Isman 2013, 'Horizontal transfer of diatomaceous earth and botanical insecticides in the commonbed bug, Cimex lectularius L.; hemiptera: cimicidae.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3783411?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)