tonnage duty

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstonnagetunnage

   Broaderduty

Questions about tonnage duty

What does tonnage duty mean?

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

What is another word for tonnage duty?

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

tonnage duty 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.