the rate of pumping, transmission, or consumption of a fluid in gallons per unit of time
gallonage in American English
(ˈgælənɪdʒ)
noun
amount or capacity in gallons
gallonage in American English
(ˈɡælənɪdʒ)
noun
1.
the number of gallons of something used
2.
the rate at which gallons of something are used
Word origin
[1905–10; gallon + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: airway, revolving door, scrounge, stabilizer, white list-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)