tonnage

1. 1.

   a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship

   Synonymstunnagetonnage duty

   Broaderduty

Other forms of tonnage

plural

tonnages·

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 tonnage

What does tonnage mean?

tonnage means "a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship".

How many syllables are in tonnage?

tonnage has 2 syllables: ton-nage. The stress falls on "ton". In IPA it is /ˈtʌnədʒ/.

What is another word for tonnage?

Close synonyms include tunnage, tonnage duty. 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 tonnage a common word?

tonnage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.