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Tweet suff. 1. a. Collection; mass: sewerage. b. Amount: footage. 2. Relationship; connection: parentage. 3. Condition; state: vagabondage. 4. a. An action: blockage. b. Result of an action: breakage. 5. Residence or place of: vicarage. 6. Charge or fee: cartage. [Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *-āticum, abstract n. suff., from Latin -āticum, n. and adj. suff.] |
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