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▪ I. † ˈoverage, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 5 ouur- (= ouvr-), ouuer-, oeuur-, 6 our-, ouerage, 7 overage, (ourage).
[a. AF. overage (Gower), F. ouvrage, f. ouvr-er:—L. operāre to work: see -age.]
1. Work, workmanship; achievement.
1490Caxton Eneydos i. 14 The yate was made of soo hye and excellente ouurage, that it passed alle other. a1529Skelton How Dk. Albany, etc. 418 A prince to play the page It is a rechelesse rage, And a lunatyke ouerage. 1656Blount Glossogr., Ourage, a work; also work or labor.
2. A piece of workmanship; a work.
1474Caxton Chesse iii. i, Than hit behoueth to deuyse the oeuurages and the offices of the werkemen. 1481― Godeffroy (1893) 237 They of the toun brake all theyr ouurages. a1533Ld. Berners Huon cx. 380 The .ii. leuys of the gate were coueryd with fyne gold intermedelyd with other rych ouer⁓agis. 1648J. Raymond Il Mercurio Italico 87 Stupendous Pillars.., besides other diversity of Overages.
▪ II. overage, n.2|ˈəʊvəɪdʒ|
[f. over a. 3 + -age.]
A surplus, an excess; an additional amount; spec. an actual amount (of goods, money, etc.) greater than that estimated.
1945Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 366 Overage (a bank term: the opposite of a shortage). 1949Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch 30 Aug. 2/2 The warehouse⁓men agreed to the..sales plan with an ‘overage schedule’ which is intended to assure Danville the sale each day of 8,800 baskets of tobacco. 1957Britannica Bk. of Year 512/1 Overage, costs in excess of estimated or contracted price. 1965Economist 11 Dec. 1235/1 Those export earnings..have not been offset by earlier unforeseen increases in export proceeds, inelegantly christened ‘overages’. 1968Punch 27 Mar. 447/1 A barman who doesn't show a regular ten per cent ‘overage’ in favour of his employers will be dismissed because he either gives the customers too much (or too little ice) or he fiddles on his own behalf beyond the customary limits tolerated by the management. 1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 26 Nov. 39/2 His normal welfare allowance would be only $95 a month. However..the man was eligible for overages, which would make his total monthly allowance $120.50. 1973Times 10 May 25/5 A good average for overages is about 6 per cent on monthly sales, minus the minimum rent. In other words, if a store does $50,000 of business in a month and pays a minimum rent of $1,000 a month it has to pay an additional $2,000 in overages. 1975Budget (Sugarcreek, Ohio) 20 Mar. 8/2 Every shortage, or overage, has to be accounted for. |