stowage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: stow=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

stowage, n. 

•  The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.  [1913 Webster]
•  Room in which things may be stowed.  Cook.  [1913 Webster]

  "In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures."  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being stowed, or put away.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Things stowed or packed.  Beau. & Fl.  [1913 Webster]
•  Money paid for stowing goods.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stowage, n.
1 the act or an instance of stowing.
2 a place for this.

THESAURUS

stowage

accommodation, allocation, assignment, burden, capacity, cold storage, collocation, conservation, content, cordage, custody, dead storage, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, dry storage, emplacement, guardianship, lading, limit, loading, localization, locating, location, measure, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, poundage, preservation, putting, quantity, reposition, room, safekeeping, shelf-room, situation, space, spotting, stationing, storage, storage space, tonnage, volume, warehousing

ROGET THESAURUS

stowage

Space

N space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace, room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread, dimension, length, distance, size, volume, hypervolume, latitude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver, spare room, elbow room, house room, stowage, roomage, margin, opening, sphere, arena, open space, free space, void, waste, wildness, wilderness, moor, moorland, campagna, abyss, unlimited space, infinity, world, ubiquity, length and breadth of the land, proportions, acreage, acres, acres and perches, roods and perches, hectares, square miles, square inches, square yards, square centimeters, square meters, yards (clothing), ares, arpents, spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample, widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed, boundless, shoreless, trackless, pathless, extended, extensively, wherever, everywhere, far and near, far and wide, right and left, all over, all the world over, throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land, under the sun, in every quarter, in all quarters, in all lands, here there and everywhere, from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end, on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass, to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.