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hourage en · NOUN

Etymology

From hour + -age.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A period of time measured in hours.
   • The government has prescribed hourages for other courses and time to be spent in school, so there is no room in the college timetable. 1997, Samuel M. Natale, Mark B. Fenton, Business Education and Training, page 159:
   • On that date an additional man was added for the purpose of reducing the hourage on the run and reducing the punitive overtime payable under the provisions of amendment 1 […] 1924, Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board with Addenda and Interpretations, page 781:

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