demurrage meaning

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demurrage (noun): a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure.

demurrage has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

demurrage as a noun

  1. a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure

    Type of: charge

  2. detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure

    Type of: delay

Scrabble score: 13 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with DE · words ending in GE · 9-letter words

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