POSTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postage mean? 

• POSTAGE (noun)
  The noun POSTAGE has 2 senses:

1. the charge for mailing something

2. a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid

  Familiarity information: POSTAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The charge for mailing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

charge (the price charged for some article or service)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

postage; postage stamp; stamp

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

item; token (an individual instance of a type of symbol)

Derivation:

post (cause to be directed or transmitted to another place)

 Context examples 

Each week his board bill brought him nearer destruction, while the postage on forty manuscripts bled him almost as severely.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The consolation he drew from it was that a saving in postage was effected by the deadlock.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He decided on the investment, and, after he had cashed the checks at the bank down in Oakland, he bought ten dollars' worth of postage stamps.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Editors and publishers contributed to the daily heap of letters, the former on their knees for his manuscripts, the latter on their knees for his books—his poor disdained manuscripts that had kept all he possessed in pawn for so many dreary months in order to fund them in postage.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)