porterage
Americannoun
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the work of carrying supplies, goods, etc, done by porters
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the charge made for this
Etymology
Origin of porterage
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at porter 1, -age
Example Sentences
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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
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
No porterage of water anywhere in the house.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
A thousand threats have made her porterage a downright office, bluntly performed.
From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates
The basket being large and heavy, Car had placed it for convenience of porterage on the top of her head, where it rode on in jeopardized balance as she walked with arms akimbo.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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