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
- : 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.
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