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Meaning of "drayage" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRAYAGE

drayage  [ˈdreɪɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRAYAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drayage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DRAYAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

drayage

Drayage

In the shipping industry and logistics, drayage is the transport of goods over a short distance, often as part of a longer overall move and is typically completed in a single work shift. Some research defines it specifically as "a truck pickup from or delivery to a seaport, border point, inland port, or intermodal terminal with both the trip origin and destination in the same urban area." The term drayage is also used for the fee paid for such services.

Definition of drayage in the English dictionary

The definition of drayage in the dictionary is the act of transporting something a short distance by lorry or other vehicle. Other definition of drayage is the charge made for such a transport.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRAYAGE


advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
age
eɪdʒ
average
ˈævərɪdʒ
bailliage
ˈbeɪlɪɪdʒ
bridge
brɪdʒ
buoyage
ˈbɔɪɪdʒ
college
ˈkɒlɪdʒ
coverage
ˈkʌvərɪdʒ
damage
ˈdæmɪdʒ
ferriage
ˈfɛrɪɪdʒ
foliage
ˈfəʊlɪɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
image
ˈɪmɪdʒ
knowledge
ˈnɒlɪdʒ
language
ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ
lineage
ˈlɪnɪɪdʒ
patrilineage
ˌpætrɪˈlɪnɪɪdʒ
verbiage
ˈvɜːbɪɪdʒ
voyage
ˈvɔɪɪdʒ
weighage
ˈweɪɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRAYAGE

drawl
drawler
drawling
drawlingly
drawlingness
drawly
drawn
drawn butter
drawn work
drawn-out
drawn-thread work
drawplate
drawshave
drawstring
drawtube
dray
drayhorse
drayman
Drayton
drazel

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRAYAGE

bon voyage
garage
home page
in this day and age
maiden voyage
marriage
massage
message
metayage
mortgage
on the same page
package
page
quayage
reportage
stage
storage
usage
village
vintage

Synonyms and antonyms of drayage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «drayage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRAYAGE

Find out the translation of drayage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drayage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drayage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

拖运
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acarreo
570 millions of speakers

English

drayage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ढुलाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

drayage
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подводах
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

drayage
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

drayage
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

camionnage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Drayage
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rollgeld
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

drayage
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

drayage
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Drayage
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

drayage
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

drayage
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ढिगाण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

drayage
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

drayage
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drayage
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підводах
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

drayage
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

drayage
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drayage
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drayage
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drayage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drayage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRAYAGE»

The term «drayage» is regularly used and occupies the 80.551 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRAYAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drayage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drayage» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drayage

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRAYAGE»

Discover the use of drayage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drayage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Drayage operations at seaports: a mathematical optimization ...
This book considers daily operations management for a fleet of trucks providing container pickup and delivery service to a port.
Rajeev Namboothiri, 2007
2
Truck Drayage Productivity Guide
The guide includes suggestions designed to help shippers, receivers, draymen, marine terminal operators, ocean carriers, and port authorities address inefficiencies, control costs, and reduce associated environmental impacts of truck ...
University of Texas at Austin, University of South Carolina, 2011
3
Operational Flexibility in Drayage Vehicle Routing: ...
In this dissertation, we propose and evaluate new methods to address these four issues.
Guangming Zhang, 2007
4
Intelligent Freight Transportation
Intermodal drayage truck routing and scheduling problems represent a special class of vehicle routing problems called full-truckload pickup and delivery problems. Feasible routes in such problems are primarily constrained by time restrictions.
Petros A. Ioannou, 2008
5
Inland and Maritime Transportation of Unitized Cargo: A ...
LINE-HAUL AND DRAYAGE COSTS In the examples of this study, drayage is used only in moving break-bulk cargo from the shipper's premises to a unitizing station where it is to be palletized or containerized prior to line-haul movement to the ...
‎1963
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Planning Container Drayage Operations at Congested Seaports
Recognizing that port congestion is likely to continue to be a major problem for drayage operations given the growing volume of international containerized trade, this research seeks to develop optimization approaches for maximizing the ...
Rajeev Namboothiri, 2006
7
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
Drayage on stores. Drills. Drinking cups. Dry cells. Drugs and medicines. Dusters . Dustpans. Elbows. Electric plugs. Emery. Emery cloth. Epaulets. Extinguishers, fire. Falls. Files. Filter sheets. Flro clay. Fire extinguishing supplies. First-aid Kits.
National Archives and Records Administration, 1992
8
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties: Vol. V
pay of superintendent, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $24,000; in all, $194,000; Sherman Institute, Biverside, California : For six hundred and fifty pupils, including not to exceed $1,000 for printing and issuing school paper, ...
9
Kappler's Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties
... exceed $6,000 for the purchase of printing equipment, $162,500; for pay of superintendent or other officer in charge, drayage, and general repairs and improvements, $25,000; in all, $187,500; Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For six ...
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Hub Exchange Operations in Intermodal Hub-and-spoke ...
2.5.1 Drayage Drayage operations take place by truck between a terminal and shippers or receivers. Drayage operations have some distinct features, different from simple pick up and delivery in rail and road transport. Despite the relatively ...
Yvonne Margaretha Bontekoning, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRAYAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drayage is used in the context of the following news items.
1
LA-LB terminals graded D-minus despite better truck turn times
The entire port complex, including the port authorities, the terminal operators and the drayage industry should not be satisfied with those results ... «JOC.com, Jul 15»
2
Priority Logistics Announces Key Management Changes
Priority Logistics services include full truckload, less than truckload, container drayage, intermodal, railcar, third-party logistics, warehousing, ... «Business Wire, Jul 15»
3
Werner Enterprises Rating Increased to Buy at Zacks (WERN)
Its VAS division operated an additional 49 intermodal drayage trucks at the end of 2013. The Company has two reportable segments: Truckload ... «The Legacy, Jul 15»
4
Houston as a Hydrogen Haven?
The worst of the worst for spewing toxic diesel emissions is typically the heavy-duty onroad trucks that are used in local drayage (the moving of ... «Environmental Defense Fund, Jul 15»
5
Hurry up and wait time in Raleigh
... activities, including dockage, wharfage, cargo handling, storage, ro-ro service, transportation drayage, and other miscellaneous port services. «Island Free Press, Jul 15»
6
Capital Correspondence – How your lawmakers voted
... maritime activities, dockage, wharfage, cargo handling, storage, ro ro service, transportation drayage and other miscellaneous port services. «StarNewsOnline.com, Jul 15»
7
How area lawmakers voted this week
... related to maritime activities, dockage, wharf age, cargo handling, storage, transportation drayage and other miscellaneous port services. «Shelby Star, Jul 15»
8
House Roll-Call Votes
... maritime activities, dockage, wharfage, cargo handling, storage, ro ro service, transportation drayage and other miscellaneous port services. «Statesville Record & Landmark, Jul 15»
9
Today's Top Supply Chain and Logistics News From WSJ
California's recent history of labor strife is threatening to shake up one of the more hidebound corners of the transportation sector: drayage ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
10
Trucking Companies Try New Approach at Congested California Ports
While all-employee drayage companies account for less than 5% of the more than 10,000 drivers at Southern California ports, that's double ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»

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