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porterage

/pawr-ter-ij, pohr-/US // ˈpɔr tər ɪdʒ, ˈpoʊr- //UK // (ˈpɔːtərɪdʒ) //

搬运费,搬运,搬运工,搬运工作

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the work of a porter or carrier.
    • : the charge for such work.

Examples

  • Much saving in porterage is thus accomplished; the telegrams are delivered in a few minutes, and rarely, if ever, lost.

  • In addition to the porterage of goods they also undertake the hewing of wood, such as is used for warming purposes in the East.

  • My bag this time made no great demands on my powers of porterage, consisting as it did of a solitary snipe.

  • The man who plunders is no longer a man, he is a machine for porterage, and all who list may treat him as a slave.

  • This I was becoming ready, more and more every day, to do; especially as nobody ever now came down for porterage.