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
While some dealers offer to pay expressage both ways we hardly think this fair and if no deal is made the dealer should pay the expressage one way and the shipper the other.
From Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps by Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
Samples 50 cents, three for $1.00, sent free of expressage.
You're always paying expressage on fossils and bugs and sea-weeds and trash.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
The set was offered to the churches for five dollars: the actual cost of reproduction and expressage.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Bok, Edward William
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