plottagen.
/ˈplɒtɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈplɑdɪdʒ/ 1. Chiefly U.S.
a. Land in the form of a plot or plots; the area or value of such land, esp. when aggregated from smaller plots.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > value of land or property
rack-rental1781
site value1865
land-value1880
prairie value1881
prairie rent1882
plottage1910
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > actually occupied > on the ground > a site or plot of land > area of a plot of land
plottage1910
1910 N.Y. Times 1 May vii. 6/4 (advt.) Brooklyn Plottage. Voluntary Sale. 12 o'clock noon, Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange.
a1929 I. Gershwin Under Cinnamon Tree in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 139/1 I'll buy me some plottage And build us a cottage.
1935 T. Adams Outl. Town & City Planning i. 63 This practice is being followed in the United States today, in Manhattan, New York, where large plottage is necessary in order to accommodate its huge skyscrapers.
1939 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. p. cii/3 Plottage, the area included in a plot of land.
2000 Seattle Times (Nexis) 10 June b4 In a market like Queen Anne, it's really hard to get plottage to build anything.
b. The increase in the value of a formerly subdivided piece of land resulting from its amalgamation under a single ownership; the value of such an increase (in full plottage increment).
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1916 Amer. Econ. Rev. 6 306 Plottage is the added percentage to aggregate value of two or more contiguous lots held in one ownership.
1926 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 16 Feb. 5/1 The effect on site values from other factors, such as railroads, waterways, plottage and the like.
1965 L. E. Davids Dict. Insurance 162 Plottage increment, the increase..of the unit value resulting from the joining together of smaller lots,..or land units into one large single ownership, the resulting total value being larger than the individual unit values.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 2 Aug. 11/3 A plottage increment of 10 per cent is allowed for an appraised land area of 12,322 square feet.
2003 Appraisal Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Jan. 75 As a determinant of the larger parcel and highest and best use, plottage is an important factor as an increment of value.
2. The plotting of a play, film, etc. Only in a mess of plottage: a convoluted or poorly constructed dramatic plot; a play with such a plot.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
1926 B. Matthews Rip Van Winkle goes to Play iii. 60 He was a born playwright; he had many gifts; but he threw away his birthright for a mess of plottage.
1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 249/3 The London Studio cast manage to make the whole mess of plottage taste mouldier even than it is.
1996 Time Out 31 July 130/3 It's left to Troughton's powerful portrayal of a credulous Norfolk squire..to drive the play through the great mess of plottage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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