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The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.
Gracie Allen

Meaning of "postage" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POSTAGE

postage  [ˈpəʊstɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSTAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Postage 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 POSTAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mail

The mail or post is a system for physically transporting documents and other small packages, as well as a name for the postcards, letters, and parcels themselves. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century national postal systems have generally been established as government monopolies with a fee on the article prepaid. Proof of payment is often in the form of adhesive postage stamps, but postage meters are also used for bulk mailing. Modern private postal systems are typically distinguished from national postal agencies by the names "courier" or "delivery service". Postal authorities often have functions other than transporting letters. In some countries, a Postal Telegraph and Telephone service oversees the postal system as well as having authority over telephone and telegraph systems. Some countries' postal systems allow for savings accounts and handle applications for passports.

Definition of postage in the English dictionary

The definition of postage in the dictionary is the charge for delivering a piece of mail.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POSTAGE


advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
cottage
ˈkɒtɪdʒ
disadvantage
ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
footage
ˈfʊtɪdʒ
forestage
ˈfɒrɪstɪdʒ
frontage
ˈfrʌntɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
high-voltage
ˈhaɪˌvəʊltɪdʒ
hostage
ˈhɒstɪdʒ
lastage
ˈlɑːstɪdʒ
outage
ˈaʊtɪdʒ
percentage
pəˈsɛntɪdʒ
portage
ˈpɔːtɪdʒ
reportage
rɪˈpɔːtɪdʒ
shortage
ˈʃɔːtɪdʒ
vantage
ˈvɑːntɪdʒ
vestige
ˈvɛstɪdʒ
vintage
ˈvɪntɪdʒ
voltage
ˈvəʊltɪdʒ
wastage
ˈweɪstɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSTAGE

postabortion
postaccident
postadolescent
postage and packing
postage costs
postage due stamp
postage meter
postage paid
postage rates
postage stamp
postal
postal card
postal code
postal meter
postal note
postal order
postal vote
postally
postamputation
postanal

WORDS THAT END LIKE POSTAGE

arena stage
backstage
centre stage
committee stage
downstage
interstage
key stage
landing stage
montage
multistage
offstage
onstage
planning stage
proof of postage
report stage
restage
sound stage
stage
substage
the stage
upstage

Synonyms and antonyms of postage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «postage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POSTAGE

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

Translator English - Chinese

邮资
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

franqueo
570 millions of speakers

English

postage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डाक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أُجْرَةُ البَرِيد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

почтовые расходы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

franquia postal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডাকমাসুল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

affranchissement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pos
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Porto
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

郵便料金
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우편요금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ongkos kirim
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phí bưu điện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அஞ்சல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टपालखर्च
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

posta ücreti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

affrancatura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

opłata pocztowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вартість пересилки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tarif poștal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταχυδρομικό τέλος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

posgeld
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

porto
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

porto
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of postage

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTAGE»

The term «postage» is very widely used and occupies the 8.914 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of postage
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «postage».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «postage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «postage» 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 postage

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9 QUOTES WITH «POSTAGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word postage.
1
Gracie Allen
The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.
2
Josh Billings
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
3
Finley Peter Dunne
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
4
Diane Lane
I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.
5
Rosemary Mahoney
It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and make certain that there really are 100 postage stamps in the roll of stamps I bought yesterday.
6
Thomas Mallon
Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.
7
Emily Mortimer
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
8
Sherwood Smith
When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.
9
Matthew Yglesias
The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTAGE»

Discover the use of postage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to postage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Collector's Guide to Postage & Fractional Currency: The ...
This updated edition contains not only the latest trends in prices for postage and fractional currency, but also over twenty pages of more detailed and previously unpublished information on the history of this aspect of America's numismatic ...
Robert J. Kravitz, 2012
2
Postal History, Postmarks and Adhesive Postage and Revenue ...
Fachbibliographie, Bibliothekskatalog Philatelie ; Grossbritannien und Nordirland.
‎1971
3
Electronic Postage Systems: Technology, Security, Economics
1999 [100], and the US Postal Services approved the first electronic postage meter under the IBI Program, the Neopost IJ25, in April 2001. The IBI Program included postage meter systems, PC based postage systems and postage printing ...
Gerrit Bleumer, 2007
4
Official Blackbook Price Guide to United States Postage ...
Describes and lists current prices for thousands of stamps
Marc Hudgeons, Tom Hudgeons, 2009
5
The Handstruck Postage Stamps of India
Post offices, postmarks, Stempel, cachets, obliterations, postal history.
D. Hammond Giles, 1960
6
Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp: An Interview-novel
On its surface a verbatim record of an oral interview conducted by Hungarian journalist László Szigeti, the book confuses and confounds with false starts, digressions, and philosophical asides.
Bohumil Hrabal, 2008
7
Affordable foreign errors on postage stamps of the world
Stamp errors from the United State are very popular with collectors.
Paul Stephen Greenlaw, Martin Sellinger, 1999
8
Essays for United States Postage Stamps
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com).
Edward H. Mason, 2010
9
FERC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
9.8. Zones,. Zone. Boundaries,. and. Postage-Stamp. Rates. The Commission has frequently used zoning as a method of setting rates for the transmission component of pipeline service. In doing so, the Commission divides the pipeline into ...
James H. McGrew, 2003
10
Federal Tax Compliance Manual
However, if the corporation and the electronic return transmitter are located in different time zones, it is the corporation's time zone that controls the timeliness of the electronically filed document. Postmark by private postage meter. There are ...
CCH Editors, CCH Incorporated, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSTAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term postage is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Karner Blue and Butterfly: New York and 2 Other States, Comeback
These pollinators are silvery blue and about the size of a postage stamp. First put on the federal endangered list in 1973, they are experiencing ... «Nature World News, Jul 15»
2
Ask a North Korean: do you keep pets?
A North Korean postage stamp of a pair of dogs. Canine companions are popular though expensive in the DPRK. Photograph: Alamy. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Huddersfield Town fans accuse club of 'cashing in' after rise in ticket …
Payment over the phone by debit or credit card has risen from £1 to £1.50 per ticket plus a 50p postage charge, though tickets can be collected ... «Huddersfield Examiner, Jul 15»
4
Statewide investigation launched after suspicious mail is sent to …
... to be cautious when receiving a suspicious package or mail that has excessive postage, no return address, excessive tape to secure parcel, ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
5
Fight may take air out of mandate for sun, wind power
It sits on 37 acres, “postage-stamp-size compared to most (coal-fired electricity) generating facilities,” said Zeeland Generating Station General ... «The Detroit News, Jul 15»
6
Plan your week's theatre: top tickets
There's a postage-stamp-sized revival of Oliver! in Newbury, Tony Benn lives again in Nottingham, Ursula Martinez is self-promoting at the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
What Gives Bugs Bunny His Lasting Power?
... Bugs has appeared in over 150 films, earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was the first animated character to get his face on a postage stamp. «Smithsonian, Jul 15»
8
Sign the Petition for a Harmon Killebrew Postage Stamp and You …
“The Minnesota congressional delegation is lobbying for Harmon to be featured on an upcoming U.S. postage stamp. The delegation came ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
9
Presentation of Postage Stamps Dedicated to the European Youth …
The FINANCIAL -- According to the decree of the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, from July 22, 2015 postage ... «The FINANCIAL, Jul 15»
10
MOTS needs help with postage for troop packages
BRADENTON -- Manasota Operation Troop Support's mission of sending food and reminders from home to American troops in Afghanistan ... «Bradenton Herald, Jul 15»

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