postage

English

Etymology

From post +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊstɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊstɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

postage (countable and uncountable, plural postages)

1. (uncountable) The system of transporting letters, and parcels.

   Synonyms: post, mail

2. The charge for posting an item.
3. The postage stamp, or similar token, affixed to an item of post as evidence of payment.

Derived terms

• book postage
• e-postage
• postage and packaging
• postage and packing
• postage code
• postage due
• postage meter
• postage rate
• postage stamp

Translations

charge

• Bulgarian: пощенски разноски f pl (poštenski raznoski)
• Catalan: franqueig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郵費 / 邮费 (zh) (yóufèi), 郵資 / 邮资 (zh) (yóuzī)

• Czech: poštovné n
• Danish: porto (da) c
• Finnish: postimaksu (fi)
• German: Porto (de) n
• Macedonian: поштарина f (poštarina)
• Māori: utukarere, utu karere
• Norman: tîmbrage m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: porto (no) m

  Nynorsk: porto m

• Polish: porto (pl) n
• Portuguese: porte (pt) m
• Russian: почто́вый сбор m (počtóvyj sbor)
• Spanish: franqueo (es) m
• Swahili: gharama ya posta
• Swedish: porto (sv) c
• Turkish: posta ücreti

  Ottoman Turkish: اجرت (ücret)

postage stamp affixed as evidence of payment — see also postage stamp

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郵票 / 邮票 (zh) (yóupiào)

• Danish: frankering
• Finnish: postimerkki (fi)
• French: affranchissement (fr) m
• German: Frankierung
• Norman: tîmbrage m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: почто́вая ма́рка (ru) f (počtóvaja márka), ма́рка (ru) f (márka)
• Spanish: franqueo (es) m
• Swedish: frankering (sv)

Anagrams

• Gestapo, age spot, potages

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.taʒ/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

postage m (plural postages)

1. postage
2. (Internet) post, posting

Derived terms

• cacapostage
• pollupostage

Further reading

• “postage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012