| 单词 | meterage |
| 释义 | meterage in British English (ˈmiːtərɪdʒ) noun the act of measuring meterage in American English (ˈmitərɪdʒ) noun 1. the practice of measuring; measurement 2. a sum or price charged for measurement Word origin [1880–85; meter3 + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Chief of Staff, impressionism, interface, jackpot, rain check-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 'meterage' in a sentence |
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