TANKAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tankage mean? 

• TANKAGE (noun)
  The noun TANKAGE has 3 senses:

1. the quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks

2. the charge for storing something in tanks

3. the act of storing in tanks

  Familiarity information: TANKAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANKAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity contained in (or the capacity of) a tank or tanks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("tankage" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The charge for storing something in tanks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("tankage" is a kind of...):

charge (the price charged for some article or service)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of storing in tanks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("tankage" is a kind of...):

storage (the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials)

Derivation:

tank (store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it)