Tonnage synonyms

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load
(Often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
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burden
The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
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cargo
The freight carried by a ship, an aircraft, or another vehicle.
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capacity
The maximum amount that can be contained:
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contents
Plural form of content
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ton (related)
A unit for measuring displacement of ships, equal to 35 cubic feet: it is approximately equal to the volume of a long ton of sea water
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tunnage
Alternative form of tonnage.
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tonnage duty
a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship
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gross-weight (related)
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hebburn-on-tyne (related)
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487ft (related)
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Tonnage Sentence Examples

  • It is the carrier of a heavy tonnage of coal to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

  • The tonnage of the shipping entering and clearing the ports of the province in 1905 was 1,756,866, of which 352,992 was foreign.

  • At the beginning of 1908 the total was 17,193 (tonnage, 1,402,647); of these 13,601 (tonnage, 81,833) were vessels of less than 20 tons, while 502 (tonnage, 1,014,506) were over 800 tons.

  • They refused to permit the vital problem of limitation of armaments to be side-tracked, and surprised the conference by proposing a ten-year naval holiday and a drastic scrapping of tonnage by the three chief naval Powers.

  • The total tonnage shipped out of St.

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