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scrappages

scrappages is the plural of scrappage.

Meaning of scrappage

Noun

scrappage (usually uncountable, plural scrappages)

  1. (usually) The practice of scrapping something.
  2. (UK, usually) An amount of money paid by the government to a person trading in an old car (to be scrapped) for a more environmentally-friendly new one.
    • Motorists will receive £2,000 if they sell their old car and buy a new model, after the chancellor bowed to pressure from the automotive sector and announced a car scrappage scheme this afternoon.2009 April 22, Dan Milmo, Tim Webb, “Budget 2009: car industry welcomes scrappage scheme”, in The Guardian

Questions about scrappages

What is scrappages the plural of?
Scrappages is the plural of scrappage.

Words near scrappages in the dictionary

  1. scrapmonger
  2. scrapmongers
  3. scrapnel
  4. scrappable
  5. scrappage
  6. scrappages
  7. scrapped
  8. scrapper
  9. scrappers
  10. scrappie
  11. scrappier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrappages (page history and authors); scrappage (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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