Definition of Footage

1. Noun. Film that has been shot. "He edited the news footage"

Generic synonyms: Film, Photographic Film

2. Noun. A rate of charging by the linear foot of work done.
Generic synonyms: Charge Per Unit, Rate

Definition of Footage

1. Noun. An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something. ¹

2. Noun. A measurement in feet. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Footage

1. a length or quantity expressed in feet [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Footage

foot process
foot race
foot rest
foot rot
foot rule
foot soldier
foot soldiers
foot sweep
foot sweeps
foot traffic
foot trap
foot traps
foot ulcer
foot up
foot yaws
footage (current term)
footages
footbag
footbags
football
football calf
football coach
football field
football fields
football game
football helmet
football hero
football league
football minute

Literary usage of Footage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Status of Federal Libraries and Information Centers in the U.S: Results from by Evelyn F. Hawkins, Robert J. Rossi (1999)
"Square footage A measure of resources available to support library and information center services is the square footage of the physical plant. ..."

2. Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing by Thomas Key, Howard Warburton Elphinstone (1899)
"... or, ' footage rent.' " And see Prec. I., clause 16, p. ... the amt Proviso as of footage rents payable under the ..."

3. A Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing: Comprising the Forms Required in by Thomas Key (1883)
"... footage rent," would yield a rent of £ w^te, for such half year, and also] so much coal as may be actually consumed in the engines or furnaces for the ..."

4. The law of mines, quarries and minerals by Robert Forster MacSwinney (1884)
"... footage " rent of a specified rent' yearly amount is reserved for every foot thick per acre, and so in proportion for every greater or less thickness, ..."

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