poundage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pound=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

poundage, n. 

•  A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.  [1913 Webster]
•  A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]
•  The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound.  Burrill. Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]

poundage, v. t. 

 To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.  [1913 Webster]

poundage, n. [See 3d Pound.].

•  Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.  [1913 Webster]
•  A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

poundage, n.
1 a commission or fee of so much per pound sterling or weight.
2 a percentage of the total earnings of a business, paid as wages.
3 a person's weight, esp. that which is regarded as excess.

THESAURUS

poundage

accommodation, avoirdupois, beef, beefiness, burden, capacity, carriage, cartage, content, cordage, deadweight, drayage, expressage, fatness, freight, freightage, gravity, gross weight, haulage, heaviness, heft, heftiness, limit, liveweight, measure, neat weight, net, net weight, overbalance, overweight, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, quantity, room, space, stowage, tonnage, underweight, volume, weight, weightiness

ROGET THESAURUS

poundage

Discount

N discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance, qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage, rebate, rebatement, backwardation, contango, salvage, tare and tret, sale, bargain, half price, price war, wholesale, wholesale price, dealer's price, trade price, coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon, store coupon, manufacturer's coupon, double coupon discount, triple coupon discount, discounting, at a discount, below par, at wholesale, have a friend in the business.