postage

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postage

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Etymology

From post +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊstɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊstɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

postage (countable and uncountable, plural postages)

1. The charge for posting an item.
2. The postage stamp, or similar token, affixed to an item of post as evidence of payment.

Derived terms

• book postage
• e-postage
• postage and packaging
• postage and packing
• postage code
• postage due
• postage meter
• postage rate
• postage stamp

Translations

charge

Bulgarian: пощенски разноски f pl (poštenski raznoski) Catalan: franqueig (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 郵費 / 邮费 (zh) (yóufèi), 郵資 / 邮资 (zh) (yóuzī) Czech: poštovné n Danish: porto (da) c Finnish: postimaksu (fi) German: Porto (de) n Macedonian: поштарина f (poštarina) Maori: utukarere, utu karere Norman: tîmbrage m Norwegian: Bokmål: porto (no) m Nynorsk: porto m Ottoman Turkish: اجرت (ücret) Polish: porto (pl) n Portuguese: porte (pt) m Russian: почто́вый сбор m (počtóvyj sbor) Spanish: franqueo (es) m Swedish: porto (sv) c Turkish: posta ücreti

postage stamp affixed as evidence of payment — see also postage stamp

Chinese: Mandarin: 郵票 / 邮票 (zh) (yóupiào) Danish: frankering Finnish: postimerkki (fi) French: affranchissement (fr) m German: Frankierung Norman: tîmbrage m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: почто́вая ма́рка (ru) f (počtóvaja márka), ма́рка (ru) f (márka) Spanish: franqueo (es) m Swedish: frankering (sv)

Anagrams

• Gestapo, age spot, potages

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.taʒ/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

postage m (plural postages)

1. postage
2. (Internet) post, posting

Derived terms

• cacapostage
• pollupostage

Further reading

• “postage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.