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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Examples of overage in a Sentence
The college has many overage students.
The players were banned from the league for being overage.
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February 2015: Red Sox sign Moncada for $31.5 million Overage tax included, Boston committed roughly $63 million to edge out the competition for Moncada.
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In 2006, the city’s Education Department released the findings of a study on young people in a category known as overage and undercredited: those between 16 and 21 who were two or more years off the pace to graduate in a timely way.
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Data caps and related overage fees or consequences for exceeding the caps (such as loss of service) also had to be clearly disclosed.
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Those overage taxes are pooled together and divvied up among small-market teams receiving revenue-sharing payments.
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The Padres shattered franchise records over the last 12 months, spending a little more than $78 million, including overage taxes, on 47 signees.
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Starting in September, Cox Communications customers in Louisiana who use more Internet data than their monthly plans allow will see overage charges tacked onto their bills.
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The company started metering online usage and charging overage fees for some customers last year and has been steadily expanding the practice across its 18 state territory.
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The outfielder will receive a $26 million signing bonus and the team will pay close to the same amount to Major League Baseball for overage taxes.
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Origin and Etymology of overage
2over + age
Definition of overage
Examples of overage in a Sentence
They paid me back the overage.
She kept track of the cost overages.
Recent Examples of overage from the Web
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In its study, AAF illustrated how rolling stock in five U.S. cities costs more, on overage, than in 14 cities overseas — though Buy America isn’t definitively pinned as the culprit.
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Teams have until 4 p.m. Friday to sign 2017 draft picks and the Brewers could choose to go over their limit and pay a penalty, as long as the overage doesn’t exceed 5%, which would cost them a draft pick next year.
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An overage between 0-5 percent of the allotment would trigger a tax of 75 percent on every dollar spent beyond the limit.
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Capfriendly.com projects the Hawks will have a cap hit of around $77.5 million before removing Kruger's contract, thanks to various bonuses and overages accumulated last season.
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Since the private-angler recreational annual catch limit is 3.8 million pounds, the overage would be more than 7.4 million pounds, the organizations said.
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Each year’s overage is subtracted from the following year’s quota.
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THR has now learned that the parties are still not agreed on what constitutes a short order series — i.e., how short a season must be for the overage mechanism to apply at all — nor on how long a time span (weeks per script) will trigger overages.
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But the project was six years late and hundreds of millions of euros over budget, with some of the overage due to the ancient, time-consuming molding technique used to curve the glass panels.
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Origin and Etymology of overage
3over + -age
OVERAGE Defined for English Language Learners
overage
playDefinition of overage for English Language Learners
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: of an age that is greater than what is normal or allowed
overage
playDefinition of overage for English Language Learners
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: an amount by which something (such as a payment) is too much
Law Dictionary
overage
playLegal Definition of overage
: an amount exceeding a certain sum or quantity: as a : a percentage of the amount of sales grossed by a retail store that is paid under the terms of a lease in addition to a fixed rent b : an amount by which a payment or cost exceeds an expected or budgeted amount c : surplus
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