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suff.
    1. Collection; mass: sewerage.
    2. Amount: footage.
  2. Relationship; connection: parentage.
  3. Condition; state: vagabondage.
    1. An action: blockage.
    2. Result of an action: breakage.
  5. Residence or place of: vicarage.
  6. Charge or fee: cartage.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *-āticum, abstract n. suff., from Latin -āticum, n. and adj. suff..]


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