Definition of "lighterage" [light•er•age]

• Nautical Transportation of goods on a lighter. (noun)
• Nautical The fee charged for lightering. (noun)

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• "Cocos (Keeling) Islandsnote: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others"
• "Labor force—by occupation: note: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others"
• "Having brought the cacao to the coast, there yet remains the lighterage to the ocean liner, which lies anchored some two miles from the shore, rising and falling to the great rollers from the broad"