[
UK
/pˈɔːtəɹɪdʒ/
]
NOUN
- the transportation of burdens by porters
- the charge for carrying burdens by porters
How To Use porterage In A Sentence
- Including a lot in the price - from door-to-door travel to visas and porterage of luggage - has guaranteed much repeat business. Times, Sunday Times
- And I set her there in her favourite place, by the sweet-scented wood-fire; and she paid me porterage without my even asking her; and for all the beauty of the rain, I was fain to stay with her; until our Lorna Doone
- The second most quoted 'bonus lifestyle facility' is 24-hour porterage. Times, Sunday Times
- Tell them that you support their action and that you don't want the resolution lifted until it can be independently confirmed that the practices of slave labour and porterage have stopped.
- Young boys skipped around us like tadpoles, offering porterage, Chiclets, hotels, cars, their sister, anything our foreign hearts desired. Walls of Silence
- Other cities, indeed, contain more works of carriageable art, but none contain so much of the glorious local art, and of the springs and sources of art, which can by no means be made subjects of package or porterage, nor, I grieve to say, of salvage. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
- When Skinsky had come to him, he had taken him to the ship and handed over the box, so as to save porterage. Dracula
- There is a briefing before people are allowed on to the mountain and government taxes and porterage tips to be sorted out.
- Like the other men in the house, he knew of the carrying to and fro of the great chest, and had got it into his head that the care exercised in its porterage indicated that it was full of treasure. The Lair of the White Worm
- As well as a glass lift between the main tower and the rest of the complex, there will be 24-hour hotel-style porterage, basement parking and 18,000 sq ft of commercial space.