expressage
Americannoun
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the business of transmitting parcels, money, etc., by express.
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the charge for such transmission.
noun
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the conveyance of merchandise by express
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the fee charged for such conveyance
Etymology
Origin of expressage
Example Sentences
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Maryland limits spending but exempts postage, telegrams, telephoning, stationery, printing, advertising, radio and television programs, publishing, expressage, travel and board, if paid by the candidate.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Do you always figure out things?" asked the banker, apparently much interested that Bob had taken the trouble to find out the rate and figure the cost of the expressage to Pittsburgh.
From Hidden Treasure by Simpson, John Thomas
A guest was never permitted to pay for anything; expressage, laundry and all incidentals were as free as air.
From Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap
Samples 50 cents, three for $1.00, sent free of expressage.
He took everything offered him from a brownstone front downwards, until it got to a bull-pup with the expressage unpaid—there he stopped.
From The Honest American Voter's Little Catechism for 1880 by Harding, Blythe
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