overage

1. 1.

   a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations

   Broaderassets

1. 1.

   too old to be useful

   “He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders”

   Synonymsoveragedsuperannuatedover-the-hill

   Similarold

Other forms of overage

plural

overages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overage

What does overage mean?

overage means "a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overage?

overage has 3 syllables: o-ve-rage. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for overage?

Close synonyms include overaged, superannuated, over-the-hill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overage a common word?

overage 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.