streetagen.
/ˈstriːtɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈstridɪdʒ/ 1. Streets collectively; street layout; = streeting n.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > provision of
streetage1854
streeting1869
1854 J. R. Morell Algeria xii. 245 400 metres of streetage were in good repair in 1849.
1869 S. S. Cox Search for Winter Sunbeams (1870) viii. 125 It would puzzle New York or London street superintendents, with their thousand miles of streetage under their daily eye, to rectify this Algerine system.
1911 Trans. Town Planning Conf. 1910 (Royal Institute Brit. Architects) ii. i. 129 Still more striking is the disappearance of the ancient street-plan from the later streetage of smaller Italian cities of Roman origin.
2007 T. Allcott Time Leak (O.E.D. archive) xxxv. 175 Boston is a crowded green and dirt type streetage place with antique store signs.
2. A charge or toll for the use of a street or street facilities; spec. †a charge for transporting goods to a personal address, rather than the depot of the carrier (obsolete). Now chiefly attributive.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for use of other facilities
stream-toll1327
cranage1390
ward-fee1789
streetage1857
slidage1884
peg-rent1911
1857 31st Ann. Rep. Stockholders of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. 62 The discrepancy..arose from the omission of the returns from the Local Coal Trade, and the Baltimore Streetage, all of which is included in the aggregate Coal Revenue for 1860.
1869 Maryland Rep. 25 79 The appellant..charged..in addition to the usual freight for transportation from Baltimore to Washington, a further compensation for streetage to the foot of 6th street.
1884 Reading (Pa.) Morning Herald 17 Apr. The Washington avenue tracks are..owned by the Pennsylvania company, and for years there has been charged but a nominal sum on the Reading's business for streetage.
1895 C. A. Ray Negligence of Imposed Duties 888 If streetage, or charges for transportation to a locality on a street distant from the carrier's depot or wharf, has been charged in addition to the freight, [etc.].
1928 Motor Transport 47 14/2 The prospective purchaser should also ascertain if there are streetage charges in connection with the plot, and if so whether such charges have been spread over a period of years.
1986 S. M. Gaskell Model Housing from Great Exhib. to Festival of Brit. 65 In place of the narrow fronted terraced house with a front and back room, the lower streetage costs enabled the evolution of houses with greater widths.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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