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overage

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. overage (adjective)
  2. overage (noun)

1over·age

adj \ˌō-vər-ˈāj\

Definition of OVERAGE

1
: too old to be useful
2
: older than is normal for one's position, function, or grade
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Variants of OVERAGE

over·age also over·aged \-ˈājd\

Examples of OVERAGE

  1. The college has many overage students.
  2. The players were banned from the league for being overage.

Origin of OVERAGE

2over + age
First Known Use: 15th century

Rhymes with OVERAGE

batting cage, center stage, disengage, golden age, legal age, mental age, middle age, multistage, ossifrage, report stage, saxifrage, scarlet sage, underage

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