Definition of Stealage

1. theft [n -S] - See also: theft

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stealage

steakettes
steakhouse
steakhouses
steakless
steaklike
steakmaker
steakmakers
steaks
steal
steal a glance
steal a march
steal away
steal somebody's thunder
steal the show
stealable
stealage (current term)
stealages
steale
stealed
stealer
stealers
steales
stealest
stealeth
stealing
stealingly
stealings
steals
stealt
stealth

Literary usage of Stealage

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

1. Monthly Consular and Trade Reports by United States Bureau of Manufactures (1881)
"ALLEGED stealage OF GOODS ON THE ISTHMUS. [The following is the extract from the annual report, of Consul McLean, of Guayaquil (see Commercial Relations for ..."

2. An Exposition of the Weakness and Inefficiency of the Government of the by Charles Fenton Mercer (1845)
"3000000 Fifty per cent, for stealage, - - — 1500000 Twenty-six States and ... Their officers paid by commissions and fees, - 10000000 Add for stealage, . ..."

3. The Weakness and Inefficiency of the Government of the United States of by Charles Fenton Mercer (1863)
"Add for stealage, . . . . . . 6000000 Corporations, counties, cities, boroughs, &c. &c., . 10000000 stealage, ....... 3000000 Post-office, carriers, ..."

4. Report of Annual Meeting by Innovative Users Group Annual meeting (1910)
"The railroads claim they were influenced to be generous in their classification because it was claimed it prevented concealed stealage, and that they have ..."

5. "My Memoirs of Georgia Politics," by Rebecca Latimer Felton (1911)
"Penitentiary stealage. "The management of the penitentiary under Bullock was a wholesale system of ..."

6. Proceedings and Committee Reports by American Association of Railroad Superintendents (1893)
"... contrary to law, and leaving the same unsealed and open, thereby exposed to the weather, and inviting stealage, resulting in losses and claims against ..."

7. Proceedings and Committee Reports (1900)
"Mr. McKeen: We can't send a man down into the P. & PU yard to prevent stealage. That is not our business. Mr. Tompkins: I stated in October or November, ..."

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