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poundage

poundage noun: a charge based on the weight of something in pounds.

Noun (1)

poundage (countable and uncountable, plural poundages)

  1. (countable) A charge based on the weight of something in pounds.
  2. (countable) A charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling.
  3. (countable) A weight measured in pounds.
  4. (uncountable) Weight, especially body weight.
    • Eating less chocolate may help you lose a little poundage.
    • Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times

Verb

poundage (third-person singular simple present poundages, present participle poundaging, simple past and past participle poundaged)

  1. To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.

Noun (2)

poundage (countable and uncountable, plural poundages)

  1. (countable) a fee charged for keeping an animal in a pound, or for its release
  2. (uncountable) the keeping of an animal in a pound

poundage meaning in Tamil

poundage in Tamil

அஞ்சற்காசோலை முதலியவை மீதான கட்டணம், தொகை

Forms of poundage

Noun
pluralpoundages
Verb
third-person singular presentpoundages
present participlepoundaging
past participlepoundaged
pastpoundaged

Origin of poundage

From pound + -age.

Questions about poundage

What does poundage mean?
Poundage means a charge based on the weight of something in pounds.
What is poundage in Tamil?
Poundage in Tamil is அஞ்சற்காசோலை முதலியவை மீதான கட்டணம், தொகை. See Poundage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is poundage?
Poundage can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of poundage?
The plural of poundage is poundages.

Words near poundage in the dictionary

  1. pound-force
  2. pound-forces
  3. pound-mass
  4. pound-shop
  5. poundable
  6. poundage
  7. poundaged
  8. poundages
  9. poundaging
  10. poundal
  11. poundals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: poundage (page history and authors); poundage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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