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Definition of Tonnage
1. Noun. A tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship.
Definition of Tonnage
1. n. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.
Definition of Tonnage
1. Noun. The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces. ¹
2. Noun. The capacity of a ship's hold etc in units of 100 cubic feet. ¹
3. Noun. The number of tons of bombs dropped in a particular region over a particular period of time. ¹
4. Noun. A charge made on each ton of cargo when landed etc. ¹
5. Noun. The total shipping of a fleet or nation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tonnage
1. total weight in tons [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonnage
Literary usage of Tonnage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Still another form is recognized among shippers as "cargo tonnage" or ...
Displacement tonnage is the weight of sea water actually displaced by the vessel. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Still another form is recognized among shippers as "cargo tonnage" or ...
Deadweight tonnage is the amount of deadweight tons of 2000 pounds which can be ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1857)
"And third, a statistical view of the tonnage, American and foreign, of vessels
arriving from, and departing to, each foreign country. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"When divided by 100 the result is the registered wider-deck tonnage of the ship —
subject to the additions and deductions ordered by the act. ..."
5. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"5), has not been in effect sufficiently long to exert a widespread effect upon
the deep-sea tonnage flying the American flag. It was not expected that any ..."
6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Traveling Engineers' Association, Canadian School Trustees' Association (1896)
"Do you not find the adoption of a tonnage system has increased the train haul?
... How does the consumption of coal per ton compare as between the tonnage ..."
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