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Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
Lucille Roybal-Allard

Meaning of "under age" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDER AGE

under age  [ˈʌndəreɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDER AGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Under age is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNDER AGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of under age in the English dictionary

The definition of under age in the dictionary is a person who is under age is legally too young to do something, for example to drink alcohol, have sex, or vote. Other definition of under age is under age activities such as drinking or smoking are carried out by people who are legally too young to do them.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNDER AGE


age
eɪdʒ
backstage
ˌbækˈsteɪdʒ
cage
keɪdʒ
engage
ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ
enrage
ɪnˈreɪdʒ
gage
ɡeɪdʒ
gauge
ɡeɪdʒ
ice-age
ˈaɪsˌeɪdʒ
mage
meɪdʒ
Osage
əʊˈseɪdʒ
outrage
ˈaʊtˌreɪdʒ
page
peɪdʒ
rage
reɪdʒ
rampage
ræmˈpeɪdʒ
sage
seɪdʒ
saxifrage
ˈsæksɪˌfreɪdʒ
stage
steɪdʒ
teenage
ˈtiːnˌeɪdʒ
underage
ˌʌndərˈeɪdʒ
wage
weɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDER AGE

under a cloud
under a gooseberry bush
under a spell
under bare poles
under canvas
under consideration
under cover
under fire
under foot
under hatches
under no circumstances
under one´s belt
under one´s breath
under one´s nose
under one´s own steam
under one´s wing
under protest
under sail
under someone´s thumb
under starter´s orders

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDER AGE

bronze age
coming of age
computer age
dark age
electronic age
golden age
ice age
in this day and age
information age
iron age
middle age
of age
old age
reading age
retirement age
school age
silver age
space age
the atomic age
the jazz age

Synonyms and antonyms of under age in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «under age» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDER AGE

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

Translator English - Chinese

在年龄
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

menores
570 millions of speakers

English

under age
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कम आयु के
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحت سن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

в возрасте
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

menor de idade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বয়স অধীনে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

de moins de
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Di bawah umur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unter dem Alter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

歳未満
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

세 미만의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing umur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dưới tuổi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வயதுக்கு கீழ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वयाच्या खाली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yaşın altında
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

minorenne
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na podstawie wieku
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

у віці
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

în vârstă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κάτω από την ηλικία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onder die ouderdom van
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

minderåriga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

umyndig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of under age

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDER AGE»

The term «under age» is very widely used and occupies the 19.166 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDER AGE» OVER TIME

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

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4 QUOTES WITH «UNDER AGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word under age.
1
Mark Dayton
The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.
2
Christine Pelosi
You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.
3
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
4
Rob Woodall
The House-passed FY2012 Budget Resolution does two very important things: it ensures that seniors 55 and older will continue to receive the same Medicare benefits they received in 2010, and it ensures Medicare for individuals under age 55 by saving Medicare from insolvency and providing, for the first time, a real choice for the future.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDER AGE»

Discover the use of under age in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to under age and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Child Care, Parental Leave, and the Under 3s: Policy ...
All Women with Children ( t) (%) (%) (%) (%) under Age 15 5 ,571 100% 58 .3 41.7 15.9 11.4 14.5 under Age 6 2 ,746 100% 64 .4 35.6 14.3 8.9 12.4 under Age 3 1 ,590 100% 67 .6 32.4 Married with Children under Age 15 4 ,944 100% 59 .9  ...
Sheila B. Kamerman, Alfred J. Kahn, 1991
2
Demographic trends in the 20th century
From 1 960 to 2000, the number of one-person households increased for both male and female householders and for householders both under age 65 and age 65 and over. Between 1960 and 2000, the number of men under age 65 living ...
Frank Hobbs, Nicole Stoops, United States. Bureau of the Census, 2002
3
International Handbook of Population Aging
But population aging was simply not an issue of much interest at a time when the world population was still young – the number of children under age 15 in 1960 was 7 times larger than the number of people over age 65 and the number under  ...
Peter Uhlenberg, 2009
4
Health Insurance Coverage: A Profile of the Uninsured in ...
1: Fifteen States With Highest Numbers and Rates of Uninsured Under Age 65 ( 1988) Table II.2: Uninsured Populations by Region, Division, and State (1988) Table III.l: Health Insurance Coverage of Individuals Under Age 65 in the United ...
DIANE Publishing Company, 1994
5
Population of Peru; Estimates and Projections: 1962-2002
Levels range from a high of 49 percent under age 15 on the Island of St. Vincent to a low in Argentina of only 30 percent under 15 years of age. Peru with 43.3 percent of the population under age 15 falls roughly half-way on the Latin American ...
Martha Bargar, Peter Gardiner, 1971
6
Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty:: ...
In model (a), the two predictor variables—total child exemptions (assumed to be under age 21) from IRS tax records and the population estimate of the under 21 age group—are used together to estimate the number of people under age 21 in  ...
Graham Kalton, Constance F. Citro, Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas, 2001
7
Statistical Handbook on the World's Children
Youth Dependency Ratio (Ratio of Population under Age 15 to Population Age 15 to 64), by Region, 1998 and 2025 A5-2. Youth Dependency Ratio (Ratio of Population under Age 15 to Population Age 15 to 64), by Major Areas and Regions, ...
Chandrika Kaul, 2002
8
Manual of Vascular Diseases
Mean age of breast development was just under age 1 0 in white girls and under age 9 in African Americans. Average age of menarche was age 1 2.8 in whites and 1 2. 1 in African Americans, not different from previous studies. This was the  ...
Sanjay Rajagopalan, Debabrata Mukherjee, Emile R. Mohler, 2005
9
Maternity Leave: Policy and Practice
TAB L E 2 .2 Family Characteristics, Need for Child Care, Child-Care Patterns and Supply Family Characteristics and Need for Child Care Number of children under age 6 in the United Statesa 23,363,909 Percentage of children under age 6 ...
Victoria Gordon, 2013
10
Demographic Reports for Foreign Countries, Series P-96
Levels range from a high of 49 percent under age 15 on the Island of St. Vincent to a low in Argentina of only 30 percent under 15 years of age. Peru with 43.3 percent of the population underage 15 falls roughly half-way on the Latin American ...
‎1969

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDER AGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term under age is used in the context of the following news items.
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New York City to ban tobacco sales to anyone under age 21
Mayor Michael Bloomberg planned to sign landmark legislation Tuesday banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21, making New York ... «Fox News, Nov 13»
2
Doug Gansler knew about underage drinking party, allowed it to go …
Doug Gansler knew about underage drinking party, allowed it to go forward ... "If he was there for his son and there were kids under age, then he should have ... «WJLA, Oct 13»
3
Facebook may let children under age 13 use the site
Consumer Reports recently released the results of a survey that indicated at least 5.6 million children using Facebook were younger than age 13, in violation of ... «ConsumerReports.org, Jun 12»
4
Ex New York Giant Lawrence Taylor defends himself after sex with …
A football legend who was convicted over under age sex with a prostitute, has told an interviewer 'everybody does it', adding the case had left him 'screwed'. «Daily Mail, Mar 11»

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