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🛥️ A place to anchor ⚓ Securing a vessel 🧱 Firm support 🤝 Source of support 💰 A docking fee
anchorage

anchorage

7.6
A fee ships pay to drop anchor in a port
  • noun
  • /ˈæŋkərɪdʒ/
translation icon : tasa de fondeo
  • Finding a safe place for anchorage is crucial to protect the ship from rough seas.

Examples

  • Before they could anchor their boat, they had to pay the anchorage fee set by the port authority.

  • "You got to pay for dat anchorage, mon," the man in the tam called to them.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The anchorage of each ship brought profit to the town, and we learn from the Venetian syndic Giustiniano that in the year 1553 trade brought 70,000 gold ducats to Hvar, out of which sum 40,000 were made in the sale of salt fish.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The harbor charges a daily anchorage fee for all vessels that wish to dock there.

Synonyms

docking fee
vsanchorage
1 3.8

A charge paid to use a dock for a boat

is for staying in open water near port rather than paying to use dock
moorage
vsanchorage
  • Specialized
8.9

A fee paid for keeping a boat at a dock

is for staying in open water near port rather than tied to a structure
dockage
vsanchorage
  • Specialized
8.1

A fee for a boat to use a dock

is for staying in open water near port rather than using dock or berth

Compounds

anchorage ground
  • Specialized
7.3

A place in a harbor or at sea where ships can anchor safely

Surface Forms

anchorage singular
anchorages plural

Morphology

anchorage = anchor (opaque) = anchor + age

Although it is historically built from 'anchor', the specialized meaning 'fee for anchoring' is not derivable by ordinary English word-formation rules for most learners.

Etymology

A helpful way to remember anchorage as a fee is to see anchor + -age, where -age can suggest a 'charge' or 'payment', so anchorage came to mean the payment for the right to anchor. That's why ports may ask for an anchorage before a ship stays.