postage
- noun
- /ˈpoʊstɪdʒ/
- I know very little about a postage stamp.
- postage stamp
- postage-paid envelope
- postage-paid return
So let's say many in on the back there's a postage stamp with a date and a time.
- So let's say many in on the back there's a postage stamp with a date and a time.
- It's not just the postage stamps that have her profile and the coins and banknotes and post boxes.
- So we can come in by fax, the time date stamp, e-mail, buy postage and we'll go by the postage stamps making sure that we received it.
- And it's it's, it's based on what I call the postage stamp consensus.
Examples
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- Oh, personal mail, but I used my own postage.
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And your face will be on a postage stamp.
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Make it $20 and the postage for my book, okay?
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You would look lovely on a postage stamp!
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Whenever they raise the postage, people need the little stamps.
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Order now and we'll knock a whopping 12% off the cost of postage.
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A few years back, a colleague laughed at the topic of my conference presentation: "What, you study postage stamps?"
Academic text (2011) -
In the spring of 1965, the Soviet authorities issued a postage stamp at a value of four kopecks in his honor.
Fiction book (1996) -
One week later, the CEOs received a survey questionnaire accompanied by a postage-paid return envelope.
Academic text (1993) -
I need to buy a few postage stamps before mailing this letter.
Synonyms
A small piece of paper put on a letter to show postage is paid
A small printed sticker you put on a letter to show you paid to send it
Compounds
A stamp or printed mark on an envelope showing the cost to send it has been paid
A small old paper used to pay for sending letters and often kept by collectors
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Postage can also mean the small stamp you put on a letter to show you paid for the mail service. A postage stamp shows you have paid the 'postage', so the post will carry your letter.