Usually means: Transporting goods by smaller vessels.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. lighterage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lighterage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lighterage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lighterage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lighterage: Vocabulary.com
  6. lighterage: Wordnik
  7. lighterage: Wiktionary
  8. lighterage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lighterage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lighterage: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lighterage, lighterage: Dictionary.com
  12. Lighterage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. lighterage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. lighterage: Rhymezone
  15. Lighterage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. lighterage: Free Dictionary
  17. lighterage: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. lighterage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. lighterage: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lighterage: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lighterage)

noun:  The fee paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter (flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances).
noun:  The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.

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