tonnage
tonnage
Definition
ton·nage (tun′ij)
tonnage
Synonyms
tonnage
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- ton: She is the longest, broadest, and tallest passenger vessel ever launched, with an unprecedented gross tonnage of 150,000 tons.
- packaging: Each PRN establishes that a particular tonnage of packaging has been recycled.
- waste: They are also trying to get Shanks to scale down the tonnage of waste.
- bomb: They have seen the greatest tonnage of British bombs dropped upon Germany.
- vessel: The expense of the lights is defrayed by a small tax on the tonnage of the vessels which enter the Tay.
- ship: The average monthly tonnage of Allied ships sunk approached half a million, despite some success with the convoy system.
Converse of object
- recycle: Total tonnage recycled rose by 3.5 per cent to 587,000 tons, an increase of just over 20,000 tons from 2000.
- calculate: Work out the width of your car, its tonnage and then calculate the equivalent tonnage in the cornish ' hedge ' .
- collect: Alternatively, we could have built a paper mill to recycle our collected tonnage with that amount of money.
- handle: The total tonnage handled over the quayside rose by 4 % to almost 40m tons.
Adjective modifier
- gross: She is 49 meters in length with a gross tonnage of 561.
- total: In total cargo tonnage was down 7.6 % on last year.
- registered: The registered tonnage of Britain's ships was greater than the rest of the world's merchant fleets combined.
- substantial: By doing this a substantial tonnage of material will be diverted from landfill.
- increased: For example, the project now collects increased tonnage from kerbside collections, which brings challenges in terms of storage, transport to markets.
- actual: In the circumstances, it is not surprising that there is an apparent discrepancy between theoretical and actual tonnages of SBO products.
Modifies a noun
- tax: The centerpiece of these measures was the UK tonnage tax.
Noun used with modifier
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