overage

From over- +‎ age.

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəɹˈeɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

overage (comparative more overage, superlative most overage)

1. Having an age that is greater than a stipulated minimum.
2. Too old to be of use in a particular situation.

• underage

overage (third-person singular simple present overages, present participle overaging, simple past and past participle overaged)

1. To have too long an aging process.
   • 1997, George Murray, Handbook of Materials Selection for Engineering Applications, →ISBN, page 92:

     The heat-treatable alloys may overage (soften) with time at temperature due to the coalescence of the precipitate particles which, when present in a smaller dispersed size, enhance roomtemperature strength.

   • 2013, Mahmoud M. Farag, Materials and Process Selection for Engineering Design, →ISBN:

     Structures that have been precipitation hardened to peak values may overage, and steels that have been hardened and tempered may overtemper.

From over +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəɹɪd͡ʒ/

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overage (countable and uncountable, plural overages)

1. A surplus of inventory or capacity or of cash that is greater than the amount in the record of an account.
2. Excess; a state of being more than it ought to be.

   You're entitled to bring a bag weighing fifty pounds onto the airplane, and will be charged extra for any overage.

   • 1998, “Daysleeper”, in Up, performed by R.E.M.:

     Receiving department, 3 A.M. / Staff cuts have socked up the overage. / Directives are posted, no callbacks, complaints. / Everywhere is calm.

3. (property law) Any additional sums payable following the purchase of land, calculated on a prearranged basis, on the occurrence of certain specified events that are deemed to increase the value of that land; usually in the context of the development and further sale of that land.