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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overage

"a surplus amount," 1945, a banking term, coined from over on model of shortage.

Wiktionary
overage

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

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

WordNet
overage

adj. too old to be useful; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope [syn: overaged, superannuated, over-the-hill]

Wikipedia
Overage

Overage may refer to:

  • Cellphone overage charges
  • Land-sale overage

Usage examples of "overage".

In fact, because we budgeted for that overage, we are well within acceptable limits.

An overage and crippled leader was not one to inspire followers with a thirst for combat.

He was not quite what she had expected, looked more like an overage rocker than a netwalker: a big man, broad through the shoulders and thick-bodied, with a mane of untidy, greying curls and a fleshy, broad-boned face.

She avoided eye contact with anyone, but drew her shawl protectively around her like an overage Ophelia.

In desperation they turned to the only remaining source of military power, the Ersatzheer, the Home or Replacement Army, which was scarcely an army at all but a collection of recruits in training and various garrison troops of overage men performing guard duty in the homeland.

And they would be able to handle that little overage themselves or pass it on to other cells and still others who could deal with it.

The victims are usually criminals, or overage or incorrigible slaves, or prisoners of war.

You say Old One is about ready to pack it in, go wherever overage Powers wander off to.

When he reached them, though, he discovered the senior officer there was an overage, overweight captain named Rudninku, whose command consisted of three understrength companies.

There, the anchor thought, that would put this overaged foreign correspondent in his place.

The man had all the personality and spontaneity of an overaged cake of warm gefilte fish.

That was cleared of other people, and as Moudi and Sister Maria Magdalena wheeled the patient toward the far door, a group of technicians dressed in plastic "space suits" sprayed the floor and walls, the very air itself, with disinfectant in a smelly man-made chemical fog that trailed the procession like exhaust from an overaged car.

She was both youthfully old and oldly youthful, a peculiar blend of overage flapper and vivacious dowager.

He set up twelve rest homes for overage whores and organized a birth control program which sterilized twelve million fecund Indian women.

My mother is doing a nude pictorial for some magazine about overaged sex goddesses.