overage
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vərˈeɪdʒ adjective
1.
beyond the acceptable or desired age: overage for the draft.
2.
older than usual or expected for the activity, position, etc.: an overage baseball player who still outperforms many rookies.
3.
too old to be serviceable; antiquated: She drives an overage car.
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Overage
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —adj | |
| beyond a specified age | |
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Word Origin & History
overage
"a surplus amount," 1945, a banking term, coined from over, on model of shortage.
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Example sentences
One famous scam is to underbid the weight of your stuff and then after they load it, overcharge you for the overage.
Nonetheless, as between themselves, the parties are free to provide by contract for compensation for an overage or underage.
So rather than getting a huge bill with overage charges, you get degraded service until the rollover of your billing cycle.
RA will not be provided for those certifications and overage will be charged when appropriate.
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