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Definition of Overage

1. Adjective. Too old to be useful. "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"

2. Noun. A surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations.

Definition of Overage

1. Adjective. Having an age that is greater than a stipulated minimum. ¹

2. Adjective. Too old to be of use in a particular situation. ¹

3. Noun. A surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account. ¹

4. Noun. A state of being more than one ought to be. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overage

1. an amount in excess [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overage

overactors overacts overacute overadjusted overadjustment overadjustments overadored overadvertise overadvertised overadvertises

overadvertising overaffect overaffected overaffecting overaffects overage (current term) overaged overages overaggressive overaggressively

overaggressiveness overagitate overagitated overagitates overagitating overalert overalkylation overall overall response rate overalled

Literary usage of Overage

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

1. Report to the Governor of Ohio by the Ohio State School Survey Commission: A by Ohio State school survey commission, Oliver Joseph Thatcher, Horace Leslie Brittain (1914)
"... not for comparative purposes, but for purposes of local administrative efficiency, just what pupils are overage or underage, slow or rapid in progress, ..."

2. Railway Station Service by Benjamin Chapman Burt (1911)
"An " overage " occurs when a shipment is found at destination without proper or ... Regular billing for an " over " may have preceded it; if so, the overage ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... and since a given pupil may be young, normal or overage, and may at the same time make rapid, normal or slow progress, we have nine possible categories ..."

4. Reports of the Immigration Commission by William Paul Dillingham (1911)
"The latter, or overage pupils, are designated as "retarded." In like manner the pupils of a given age can bo divided into two groups—those who have attained ..."

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