advantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: vantage |
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(noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: reward |
(noun) (tennis) first point scored after deuce | - |
agiotage | (noun) a fee charged for exchanging currencies | Synonyms: agio, exchange premium, premium |
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(noun) speculative dealing in stock exchange securities or foreign exchange. | - |
backstage | (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: offstage, wing |
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baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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(noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
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(noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
cartage | (noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it | Synonyms: carting |
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clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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cottage | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: bungalow |
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curettage | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettement |
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decolletage | (noun) a low-cut neckline on a woman's dress | - |
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disadvantage | (noun) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position | - |
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dotage | (noun) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations | Synonyms: second childhood, senility |
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downstage | (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
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driftage | (noun) the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting | - |
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eatage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: forage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
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footage | (noun) film that has been shot | - |
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(noun) a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done | - |
forestage | (noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) | Synonyms: apron, proscenium |
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freightage | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freight |
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(noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight, freight rate |
frontage | (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: facade, frontal |
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(noun) the extent of land abutting on a street or water | - |
(noun) the direction in which something (such as a building) faces | - |
frottage | (noun) masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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fruitage | (noun) the yield of fruit | - |
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heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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(noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
(noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
(noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
hermitage | (noun) the abode of a hermit | - |
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hostage | (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: surety |
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mintage | (noun) act or process of minting coins | - |
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(noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, specie |
(noun) fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin | - |
montage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: collage |
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multistage | (noun) occurring in more than one stage | - |
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offstage | (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, wing |
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outage | (noun) a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers) | - |
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(noun) the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation | - |
parentage | (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, pedigree, stemma, stock |
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(noun) the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents | Synonyms: birth |
(noun) the state of being a parent | Synonyms: parenthood |
percentage | (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, portion, share |
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(noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percent |
photomontage | (noun) a montage that uses photographic images | - |
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pilotage | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: navigation, piloting |
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(noun) the occupation of a pilot | Synonyms: piloting |
portage | (noun) carrying boats and supplies overland | - |
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(noun) overland track between navigable waterways | - |
(noun) the cost of carrying or transporting | - |
postage | (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage stamp, stamp |
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(noun) the charge for mailing something | - |
potage | (noun) thick (often creamy) soup | Synonyms: pottage |
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pottage | (noun) a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat | - |
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(noun) thick (often creamy) soup | Synonyms: potage |
reportage | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reporting |
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rootage | (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, source |
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(noun) a developed system of roots | Synonyms: root system |
(noun) fixedness by or as if by roots | - |
sabotage | (noun) a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged | - |
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shortage | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortfall |
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(noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, famine |
stage | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: leg |
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(noun) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience | - |
(noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stagecoach |
(noun) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination | Synonyms: microscope stage |
(noun) the theater as a profession (usually `the stage') | - |
(noun) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something | - |
(noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, point |
(noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events | Synonyms: phase |
upstage | (noun) the rear part of the stage | - |
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vantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: advantage |
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(noun) place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) | - |
vintage | (noun) the oldness of wines | Synonyms: time of origin |
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(noun) a season's yield of wine from a vineyard | - |
voltage | (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop |
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(noun) the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts | Synonyms: electromotive force, emf |
wastage | (noun) anything lost by wear or waste | - |
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(noun) the process of wasting | - |
wattage | (noun) the product of voltage and current | Synonyms: electric power, electrical power |
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