overage
adjective
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Definition of overage
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overage
noun
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Synonyms & Antonyms for overage
Synonyms: Noun
bellyful, excess, fat, overabundance, overflow, overkill, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, plethora, plus, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, surplusage
Antonyms: Noun
deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, undersupply
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Examples of overage in a Sentence
Adjective
The college has many overage students. The players were banned from the league for being overage.Noun
They paid me back the overage. She kept track of the cost overages.
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Biketown has been working with a startup called Validated to offer credits—which can be used to cover overage fees or annual memberships—to users who make purchases at retailers like Portland Gear and Green Zebra Grocery. — David Zipper, WIRED, "Public Transit Agencies Think Rewards Programs Can Bring Back Riders," 7 July 2019 The Padres were limited to signing players for $300,000 or less the last two years after spending nearly $80 million, including overage taxes, on the 2016-17 class. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Padres add Mena, Preciado for combined $3.5M to start international period," 2 July 2019 The school, founded in 2001, tries to help struggling, overage middle school students find joy in learning and get back on track toward high school graduation. — J.l. Kirven, Detroit Free Press, "How Detroit Lions Academy helps get struggling students back on track," 19 June 2019 Son has been given leave from his Premier League club to take part in Indonesia as one of three overage players that each team is allowed. — John Duerden, The Seattle Times, "Son and co faced Vietnam and ‘Korean Hiddink’ at Asian Games," 27 Aug. 2018 Unlike Comcast, Charter does not enforce data caps or overage fees. — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, "Charter’s nationwide price hike could cost you another $91 a year," 23 Oct. 2018 The Padres’ major league player expenses in 2017 were down from $143 million to $102 million as the organization spent upwards of $80 million — including overage taxes — on the 2016-2017 international free agent market. — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Forbes: Padres' value rises past $1.2 billion," 11 Apr. 2018 In January 2015, the team paid a tick more than $8 million to sign him, plus another $8 million in overage penalties for exceeding its international spending limits. — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, "Arizona Diamondbacks’ Yoan Lopez is a prospect again," 16 Mar. 2018 But in New Orleans, overage students are incredibly common. — The Hechinger Report, NOLA.com, "About 40 percent of New Orleans high school students are held back at least 1 grade," 8 Jan. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Welcome to our overage of the 2019 U.S. Open, the third of four major championships of the season, at Pebble Beach Golf Links in southern California. — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, "U.S. Open: Live leaderboard, final round updates from Pebble Beach," 16 June 2019 An employee of a business in the 2000 block of Chestnut Avenue reported June 4 that the company received a check of $2,600 from a customer who stated that the extra cash was for transportation costs and asked for the overage back. — Pioneer Press, chicagotribune.com, "Glenview resident reported a $1,500 check cashed against their account using mobile app: Police," 17 June 2019 All the primary providers have an overage alert feature that is simple to set up. — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, "5 ways to slash your smartphone bills," 2 July 2018 All the primary providers have an overage alert feature that is simple to set up. — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, "5 ways to slash your smartphone bills," 2 July 2018 All the primary providers have an overage alert feature that is simple to set up. — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, "5 ways to slash your smartphone bills," 2 July 2018 All the primary providers have an overage alert feature that is simple to set up. — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, "5 ways to slash your smartphone bills," 2 July 2018 All the primary providers have an overage alert feature that is simple to set up. — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, "5 ways to slash your smartphone bills," 2 July 2018 From the user's perspective, these apps drain their phone's battery and may cause data overages as the apps are constantly running and communicating with servers in the background. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "22 apps with 2 million+ Google Play downloads had a malicious backdoor," 6 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'overage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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