porterage

American  

[pawr-ter-ij, pohr-] / ˈpɔr tər ɪdʒ, ˈpoʊr- /

noun

1. the work of a porter or carrier.

2. the charge for such work.

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porterage British  

/ ˈpɔːtərɪdʒ /

noun

1. the work of carrying supplies, goods, etc, done by porters

2. the charge made for this

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Etymology

Origin of porterage

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at porter ¹, -age

Example Sentences

From providing porterage services to supplying food and other necessities that made the trade possible, local businesses also profited from the sale of enslaved people.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

My bag this time made no great demands on my powers of porterage, consisting as it did of a solitary snipe.

From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Hay, Ian

At the side men and boys drive the flocks and herds, while as often as not the elder women-folk take a full share in the porterage of their property.

From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Meakin, Budgett

It was already beyond maternal porterage, and Caddles, staggering indeed, but grinning triumphantly at quantitatively inferior parents, bore it back to the free-sitting occupied by his party.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Hence it was confided to the careful porterage of Dawson, an assiduous and favored courtier of Miss Paterson; and he, having lunched, was fated to leave it behind at Lazarus' Hotel.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval