excess luggage

excess baggage

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noun

luggage that is greater in weight or in number of pieces than an airline, etc, will carry free

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Words nearby excess luggage

excess baggage, excess demand, excess insurance, excessive, excessively, excess luggage, excess-profits tax, excess supply, exch., exchange, exchangeable

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How to use excess luggage in a sentence

You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Shake off any excess flour and gently place in the heated oil.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole|Carla Hall|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Fold over the edges and crimp, then trim any remaining excess.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Pumpkin Pecan Pie|Carla Hall|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Following the pre-recession excess of T-Pain and Akon, hip-hop was in search of greater authenticity.
Future Makes Us Rethink Everything We Thought We Knew About Rap Artists|Luke Hopping|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The Senate Intelligence Committee report says they secured a contract with the CIA in 2006 valued “in excess of $180 million.”
The Luxury Homes That Torture and Your Tax Dollars Built|Michael Daly|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Victor was proud of his achievement, and went about recommending it and urging every one to partake of it to excess.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
But Mamma and Papa and Judy had quitted the cab, and all the luggage was being taken into the house.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
The authorization borne by him was very extraordinary and had a great excess of the ordinary warrants.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
(d) Excess balances may, at the convenience of each federal reserve bank, remain deposited with the gold settlement fund.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Our luggage, I remember, p. 5was carried on the roof of the carriage in the good old-fashioned coaching style.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow