单词 | husbandage |
释义 | husbandage in British English (ˈhʌzbəndɪdʒ) noun the commission or allowance formerly paid to a ship's manager or husband husbandage in American English (ˈhʌzbəndɪdʒ) noun the fees and commissions of a ship's manager Word origin [1800–10; husband + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1800–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: isolate, jumbo, peripheral, rejuvenate, sodium-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) |
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