Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definitions: Demurrage |
DemurrageNoun1. A charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure. 2. Detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Demurrage \De*mur"rage\, noun. [Compare to Old French demorage delay. See Demur.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | The charge that a shipper may be required to pay for detaining a rail car (or water carrier) longer than necessary to load it. What length of time is considered reasonable, and the level of demurrage charges, are frequently points of dispute between agricultural shippers and the railroads, particularly in proceedings before federal or state transportation regulatory bodies. (references) |
Business | Money paid to a customer when a shipment is delayed at a port or by customs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | 1. In international transportation, a charge for the failure to remove cargo from a terminal within the allowed free time. Also, a charge for failure to load or unload a ship within the allowed period. 2. (USA) In domestic transportation, a penalty charge against users for use of carriers' equipment beyond the allowed free time. (references) |
Literature | Demurrage An allowance made to the master or owners of a ship by the freighters for detaining her in port longer than the time agreed upon. (Latin, demorari, to delay.) "The extra days beyond the lay days ... are called days of demurrage." - Kent: Commentaries, vol. iii. part v. lecture xlvii. p. 159. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | The detention of a vessel, railroad car, or other vehicle beyond anallotted time and for which a fee is usually charged. (references) |
Shipping | A penalty charge against shippers or consignees for delaying the carrier's equipment beyond the allowed free time. The free time and demurrage charges are set forth in the charter party or freight tariff. - See also Detention and Per Diem. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Demurrage |
| English words defined with "demurrage": Demorage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "demurrage": car-record clerk, CONTAINER COORDINATOR ♦ DEMURRAGE CLERK, DOCUMENTATION SUPERVISOR ♦ INCOMING-FREIGHT CLERK ♦ Ship Demurrage, Storage Demurrage, storage-wharfage clerk ♦ WHARFINGER, CHIEF. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "demurrage": Demorage. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Nigeria | Moreover, the subsequent berthing delays have created additional demurrage charges for ships waiting to deliver cargo. (references) |
Political Economy | SPAIN | Goods that are shipped to a Spanish customs area without proper import licenses or declarations are subject to considerable delay, may run up substantial demurrage charges, and have recently been rejected outright. (references) |
Trade | Chad | Bonded warehousing was abolished on Chadian territory January 1, 1998. The port of Douala collects demurrage after 11 days. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "demurrage": demurrage charge. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
demurrage | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "demurrage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dëmshpërblim për mosngarkim, mosngarkim në afat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهلة إضافية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | такса за такова забавяне. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 抗议 (Protest, Protestation, Protested, Protesting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vognleje (wagon demurrage charge), overliggedage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | staangeld voor een wagen (wagon demurrage charge), overligtijd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نگاهداشتن (Preserve, Withhold), حق باراندازی گرفتن , تاخیرکردن (Dally, Defer, Delay, Lag, Linger, Loiter, Retard, Tarry), خسارت بیکارماندگی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seisonta-aika (break in the work, days of demurrage, dead time, delay time, down time, lay days, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | surestarie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wagenstandgeld (wagon demurrage charge), Ueberliegetage, liegegeld. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπερημερίες, υπερημερία (overdue payment), επισταλίες, αργοπορία (delay), τέλος στάθμευσης ενός βαγονιού (wagon demurrage charge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | raktárdíj (stowage), hajóálláspénz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tassa di sosta di un carro (wagon demurrage charge), soprastallia, controstallia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 체 료. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | argid cumrail. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emurrageday tarifa de estacionamento de um vagão (wagon demurrage charge). (various references) простой судна, плата за хранение грузов сверх срока. (various references) prekoračenje roka. (various references) derechos de paralización de un vagón (wagon demurrage charge), derechos de demora de un carro (wagon demurrage charge), sobrestadía, sobreestadías. (various references) kostnader för överliggetid. (various references) surastarya ücreti, bekleme süresi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "demurrage": demurrages. (additional references) | |
| |
"Demurrage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demarrage, demerarae, demmurage, Demorgan, demorrage, demurage, demurge, denurrage, dumurrage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "demurrage" (pronounced 'De*mur"rage'): Barrage, Bodrage, Culrage, Harrage, Murage, Sorrage, Stirrage, Vitrage. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-m-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: reargued, redargue. | |
-2 letters: demurer, dreamer, eardrum, guarder, reargue, rearmed, redream, regrade. | |
-3 letters: agreed, argued, arguer, armure, dearer, degame, degerm, demure, dragee, garred, gaumed, geared, grader, marred, mauger, maugre, meager, meagre, merged, merger, murder, reader, reamed, reamer, reared, redear, regard, regear, remade, remuda, reread. | |
-4 letters: adeem, agree, ameer, argue, armed, armer, auger, darer, degum, demur. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-m-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: demurrages. | |
+3 letters: undergarment. | |
+4 letters: undergarments. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6D 75 72 72 61 67 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- ..- .-. .-. .- --. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101101 01110101 01110010 01110010 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e m u r r a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006D 0075 0072 0072 0061 0067 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387179878484677371 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
