demurrage

What does demurrage mean?

demurrage means "a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in demurrage?

demurrage has 3 syllables and divides as de-mur-rage under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is demurrage a common word?

demurrage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for demurrage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.