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Definition: Haulage |
HaulageNoun1. The act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Economics | 1. The local transport of goods. 2. Also the charge(s) made for hauling freight on carts, drays or trucks. 3. Also called cartage or drayage. (references) |
Mining | Collective terms for the forward transport from the point of extraction of the substance mined. In statistical returns the limits of the zone of operations should be entered. Source: European Union. (references) |
| (1)The drawing or conveying, in cars or otherwise, or movement of men, supplies, ore and waste both underground and on the surface. (2)Applied generally to track mining as opposed to conveyor mining, although belt conveyor systems are sometimes referred to as belt haulage. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A. The drawing or conveying, in cars or otherwise, or movement of workers, supplies, ore, and waste both underground and on the surface b. In dividing the transportation system according to the area served there is (1) primary or face haulage, (2) secondary haulage, and (3) main-line haulage. See also:transport; intermediate haulage; relay haulage; locomotive haulage; underground haulage c. Applied generally to track mining as opposed to conveyor mining, although belt conveyor systems are sometimes referred to as belt haulage d. The system of hauling coal out of a mine. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HaulageSynonyms: draw (n), haul (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regression | Noun: traction; drawing; Verb: draught, pull, haul; rake; "a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together"; towage, haulage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Business | Haulage contractors needing HGVs can, however, stipulate their requirements. (references) | |
The management contract then goes to a haulage company with no background in waste management. (references) | ||
Demand for HGVs is expected to rise, as these will be needed for bulk distribution to supermarkets and businesses and for long distance haulage. (references) | ||
Economic History | Dominican Rep | Truckers belong to syndicates that regulate prices, increasing the price of haulage. (references) |
Netherlands | Some sector labor contracts (e.g. road transport and haulage) are relatively inexpensive, others (e.g. metal) are more costly. (references) | |
Russia | As the economy shifts towards smaller scale private enterprises located near customers, road haulage is projected to increase in importance. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Haulage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.80% of the time. "Haulage" is used about 174 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.8% | 158 | 24,965 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.75% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.72% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.72% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 174 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "haulage": haulage cable ♦ haulage contractor ♦ haulage firm ♦ haulage line ♦ licensed road haulage ♦ public road haulage ♦ road haulage ♦ road haulage firm. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "haulage": road-haulage, steam-haulage. | |
| 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 |
haulage road | 32 |
heavy haulage | 20 |
haulage | 16 |
company haulage | 12 |
haulage road uk | 10 |
haulage uk | 9 |
europe haulage | 7 |
haulage light uk | 6 |
dover england haulage | 4 |
haulage muck | 3 |
haulage system | 3 |
haulage road warehousing | 3 |
truck haulage | 3 |
baylis haulage | 3 |
anderson haulage | 3 |
haulage north roach west | 2 |
haulage rate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "haulage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | transportim (affreightment, carriage, cartage, conveyance, portage, shipment, transfer, transit, transport, transportation), tarifë transporti (carriage, freightage, portage), forcë tërheqëse (charisma, magnetism, traction), bartje me kamion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النقل بالعربات, رسوم نقل, شحن (charge, forward, freight, freightage, load, pack, truck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стойност на превоза, рудничен извоз, теглене (draft, drag, draught, draw, drawing, haul, lug, pull, tow, towage, towing, traction, tug), влачене (crawl, haul, lug, shuffle, tow, towage, traction), превозване (conveyance, haul, lift, transit), подвоз (supply, supply-port, transport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 货车使"费. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přepravné, nákladní doprava, dopravné (freight, freightage, portage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hældende transporttunnel (haulage plane, incline, plane), vogntogtransport har visse ulemper, saasom langsom acceleration og daarlig bremseevne p.g.a. manglende friktion mellem hjul og spor (because of the adherence between wheel and rail, main haulage systems have certain major disadvantages), traekline (drag line, haulage cable, haulage line, lead line, main cable, main lead, main line, operating line, skidder line, skidding line, traction cable, traction line, traction rope, yarding line), traekkekabel (drag line, haulage cable, haulage line, lead line, main cable, main lead, main line, operating line, skidder line, skidding line, traction cable, traction line, traction rope, yarding line), traekkabel (drag line, haulage cable, haulage line, lead line, main cable, main lead, main line, operating line, skidder line, skidding line, traction cable, traction line, traction rope, trail, yarding line), spillet reguleres direkte fra det bevaegende transportmiddel (the drives are controlled from the haulage facility itself), at automatisere hele den rullende transport paa en udvindingsetages hovedstraekning (to automate the main-road haulage on a single haulage horizon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | het automatiseren van het totale lokomotiefvervoer van een winningsverdieping (to automate the main-road haulage on a single haulage horizon), trekkabel van een tractor (drag line, haulage cable, haulage line, lead line, main cable, main lead, main line, operating line, skidder line, skidding line, traction cable, traction line, traction rope, yarding line), trekkabel (drag line, haulage cable, haulage line, lead line, main cable, main lead, main line, operating line, skidder line, skidding line, traction cable, traction line, traction rope, yarding line), Stichting Bureau Examens voor het Beroepsgoederenvervoer over de Weg (Road Haulage Examinations Organisation), regeling van de sleeplier vanuit de pijlertransporteur (the drives are controlled from the haulage facility itself), beroepsvervoer op de weg (licensed road haulage, public road haulage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کشش (Draw, Extension, Haul, Inducement, Jerk, Magnetism, Pull, Reach, Tension, Tract, Traction, Tug, Twitch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ajopalkka, ajo (chase, drive, driving, drove, droving, hauling, hunt, machine run, program run, programme run, run, track, trailing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transport routier, camionnage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | transportkosten (carriage, cartage, transportation cost), transport (carriage, consignment, conveyance, freightage, hauling, load, portage, porterage, shipment, traction, transport, transportation), Foerderung (conveying, transport, transportation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στοά μεταφοράς, μεταφορά εμπορευμάτων, μεταφορά (carriage, carryover, conveyance, conveying, forwarding, freightage, metaphor, migration, portage, subculture, traction, traffic, transfer, transference, transport, transportation, truckage), εξόρυξη (blast, conveying, dam, extracted seam height, extracted seam thickness, extraction, fire door, fire wall, mining, seal, shot, stopping, transport, transportation, worked thickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תובל" (conveyance, transport, transportation), "ובל" (carriage, conveying, freight, lead, transport, transportation), "מי "ובל" (carriage, freight charges). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vontatás (haul, pulling, tow, towage, towing, traction, tug), szállítmányozás (forwarding), húzás (cut, dash, drag, draught, draw, drawing out, gambit, haul, hitch, obliteration, ploy, pull, pulling, traction, tug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trasporto (abandon, carriage, cartage, conveyance, conveying, freight, freightage, hauling, lines carried over, portage, transfer, transference, transferring, transport, transportation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ymmyrkey (appearance, attitude, bear, behave, behaviour, birth, carry, carrying, comportment, conduction, convey, conveyance, endure, gestation, give birth, supply; conductance, support, sustain, tide, transport, yield), thowal (tow), tayrn (brew of tea; designing, brew; designing, carry, carrying, cart; get out; draw, deracinate, describe; attract, draft, drag, draw along, drawing, haul, heave, hitch, induce; tap, induce; tap as barrel, lure, pluck, pull, pulling, suction, tow, towing, trace, tracing; quartering, trawl, tug, tugging, yank), costys ymmyrkee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | transport. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aulagehay transporte (affect, bearing, carriage, carry, carry over, carrying, colportage, conduction, conveyance, conveying, driving, extraction, flush, freight, haul, hawking, portage, porterage, rapture, trance, transfer, transference, transferring, transit, transport, transportation, transposition). (various references) transport (carriage, casting, conveyance, portage, shipping, transport, vehicular transport), tragere la edec, tracţiune (traction, transport), cheltuieli de transport (freight). (various references) перевозка (carriage, cartage, conveyance, haul). (various references) tegljenje (haul, tug), prevoznina (truckage), prenos (assignment, broadcast, conveyance, devolution, transfer, transference, transposal). (various references) acarreo (carriage, cartage, deflation, haul road, roadway, track). (various references) transport (carriage, carry over, portage, shipment, shipping, transit, transport, transportation). (various references) การขนส่งสินค้า (ทางรถยนต์หรือรถไฟ). (various references) taşıma (carriage, carrying, conduction, conveyance, freight, portage, removal, shipping, traction, transfer, transport, transportation), nakliye ücreti (carriage, freight rate, freightage, transportation), nakliye (carriage, carrying, forwarding, freight, shipping, transport), çekme (allure, allurement, bearing, draft, draught, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, hitch, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal), çıkarma (belch, cancel, cancellation, deduction, dismantlement, ejection, ejectment, elimination, emission, exclusion, expulsion, extraction, extrusion, issuance, issue, omission, rejection, subtraction). (various references) тяга (connecting rod, draught, draw, pull, traction), буксирування (tow, towage, towing), доставка (carriage, porterage). (various references) cước phí chuyên chở. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "haulage": haulages. (additional references) | |
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"Haulage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aulaye, aulnage, Hallager, hamulate, haula, haulee, haulige, Hawlader, haylage, Heiligen, Heulog, Heyliger, huage, hulge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "haulage" (pronounced 'Haul"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Demorage, Disusage, Dockage, Domage, Doomage, Dosage, Drainage, Drayage, Driftage, Drownage, Dumpage, Eatage, Encourage, Endamage, Envisage, Escheatage, Espousage, Expressage, Faldage, Floodage, Floorage, flowage, Foldage, Fraughtage, freightage, Frequentage, frontage, fruitage, Frutage, Fuage, Fullage, Gainage, Gaussage, Graffage, Graftage, Groundage, Guardage, Guidage, Gullage, Hallage, Helmage, herbage, Hidage, Housage, Impoundage, Indamage, Keelage, Knightage, Lastage, leafage, Liage, linage, linkage, Lochage, lockage, lovage, Manurage, Metage, mileage, mintage, mismanage, Misusage, Mockage, moorage, Paage, Package, Parage, Partage, Pavage, Peerage, Pelage, Pellage, Percentage, Pesage, Pierage, Pipage, Plantage, Plumage, Plumbage, Pollage, Postage, Prisage, Pumpage, Quayage, Recoinage, Reencourage, Rentage, reportage, Rivage, Sackage, Scavage, Scourage, Servage, Shorage, shortage, shrinkage, Smallage, soakage, socage, Soundage, Soutage, Sperage, Spousage, Stackage, Stallage, Standage, steerage, Sternage, storage, stowage, Stumpage, Sweepage, tankage, teenage, Tentage, Thanage, Thirlage, tillage, Tollage, towage, Tronage, Truage, Unusage, usage, Vaultage, Ventage, Viage, Vintage, Waftage, Wantage, Warpage, Wastage, Weftage, Weighage, Wharfage, Windage, Wreckage, Yarage. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-l-u" | |
-2 letters: algae, galah, galea, laugh, lehua. | |
-3 letters: agha, ague, alae, alga, egal, gala, gale, glue, hale, haul, heal, huge, hula, luge. | |
-4 letters: aah, aal, aga, age, aha, ala, ale, eau, gae, gal, gel, gul, hae, hag, hue, hug, lag, lea, leg, leu, lug, ugh. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, ah, al, eh, el, ha, he, la, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-h-l-u" | |
+1 letter: haulages. | |
+2 letters: laughable. | |
+5 letters: manslaughter, ultraheating, unchangeable, unchangeably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 75 6C 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .- ..- .-.. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110101 01101100 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a u l a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0075 006C 0061 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42678778677371 |
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