🚢 A storage space 📦 Packing away 💰 A storage charge

stowage

8.5

A fee for putting goods into a ship's hold or storage space

noun
/ˈstoʊɪdʒ/

Specialized

: cargo

All stowage charges must be settled before unloading the cargo.

Examples

We had to pay extra stowage for our oversized crates.
The stowage fee for the cargo was quite high.
The shipping company included the stowage in their final invoice.
We need to calculate the stowage costs before shipping.
The shipping company included the stowage in their final invoice.
All stowage charges must be settled before unloading the cargo.
We had to pay extra stowage for our oversized crates.

Synonyms

wharfage

vsstowage

Specialized

9.5

A fee for using a dock to load, unload, or store cargo

is specifically a charge for placing goods into ship storage during loading

tankage

vsstowage

Jargon

8.8

A charge for storing liquids in tanks

is instead a loading charge for placing goods into ship storage

cellarage

vsstowage

Archaic

9.9

A fee for storing goods in a cellar

focuses on loading onto a ship rather than long underground storage

How High

extortion

3 7.5

surcharge

31 5.5

stowage

Specialized

8.5

small fee

9 1.0

Surface Forms

stowage singular

stowages plural

Morphology

stowage = stow (semi-transparent) = stow + age

Built from 'stow' + '-age' but the commercial sense 'fee or charge' is a specialized extension that is not predictable from the verb alone for many learners.

Etymology

Stowage also uses the ending -age, which sometimes names a fee, as in postage 'the cost to send a letter'. A helpful way to remember this sense is that stowage can mean the charge for placing goods in storage, especially when loading a ship.