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rerage

rerage noun: money owed; overdue payment.

Noun

rerage (plural rerages)

  1. (obsolete) Money owed; overdue payment.
    • Also the duke of Burbone shall have his duchye and seniories and lordships agayne as he had before, and the kynge shall gyve to the duke all his rerages and customes that is growne or rune unto hym [...].c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846
  2. (obsolete) The state of being in debt.

Forms of rerage

pluralrerages

Origin of rerage

Either aphetic form of arrearage; or directly from Late Latin reragium or its likely source, Anglo-Norman arerage.

Questions about rerage

What does rerage mean?
Rerage means money owed; overdue payment.
What part of speech is rerage?
Rerage is a noun.
What is the plural of rerage?
The plural of rerage is rerages.

Words near rerage in the dictionary

  1. reradicalization
  2. reradicalize
  3. reradicalized
  4. reradicalizes
  5. reradicalizing
  6. rerage
  7. rerages
  8. rerail
  9. rerailed
  10. rerailer
  11. rerailers

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