How to Use overage in a Sentence

overage

1 of 2 adjective
  • The players were banned from the league for being overage.
  • The college has many overage students.
  • This year, the second overage player to be traded was Evan Weinger.
    Samantha Meese, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Other squads that are up against the cap—the Giants, Red Sox, and Nationals, to name a few—are leery of the financial hit that the overage tax will deliver.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • The outfielder will receive a $26 million signing bonus and the team will pay close to the same amount to Major League Baseball for overage taxes.
    Paul Skrbina, chicagotribune.com, 27 May 2017
  • Son has been given leave from his Premier League club to take part in Indonesia as one of three overage players that each team is allowed.
    John Duerden, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
  • For the same period, Sprint will also waive roaming voice and text overage fees for its customers in those locations.
    Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Expect them to recommend buying 15 or 20 percent overage to allow for waste in the cutting and fitting.
    Courtney Ortega, star-telegram, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The school, founded in 2001, tries to help struggling, overage middle school students find joy in learning and get back on track toward high school graduation.
    J.l. Kirven, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
  • Unlike Comcast, Charter does not enforce data caps or overage fees.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Data caps and related overage fees or consequences for exceeding the caps (such as loss of service) also had to be clearly disclosed.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 July 2017
  • THR has now learned that the parties are still not agreed on what constitutes a short order series — i.e., how short a season must be for the overage mechanism to apply at all — nor on how long a time span (weeks per script) will trigger overages.
    Jonathan Handel, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2017
  • The opening of multiple accounts or service plans in order to bypass any restrictions or overage charges set forth by DreamHost is grounds for termination of all services.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Aug. 2017
  • During and after Hurricane Irma, all South Florida cell providers also waived data, talk and text overage charges for customers.
    Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
  • When customers go over their limits and incur an overage fee, that revenue stream goes toward supporting the service provider’s operations.
    The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Those overage taxes are pooled together and divvied up among small-market teams receiving revenue-sharing payments.
    Zach Buchanan, The Courier-Journal, 7 July 2017
  • Since last July 2, the rebuilding Padres have been easily the biggest spender on overseas talent, committing about $80 million, including overage taxes, to dozens of prospects.
    Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • But in New Orleans, overage students are incredibly common.
    The Hechinger Report, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • With every major U.S. wireless carrier now offering unlimited data plans, consumers don’t need to log on to a Wi-Fi network to avoid costly overage charges anymore.
    Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2017
  • The company started metering online usage and charging overage fees for some customers last year and has been steadily expanding the practice across its 18 state territory.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 28 June 2017
  • The players were banned from the league for being overage.
  • The college has many overage students.
  • This year, the second overage player to be traded was Evan Weinger.
    Samantha Meese, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Other squads that are up against the cap—the Giants, Red Sox, and Nationals, to name a few—are leery of the financial hit that the overage tax will deliver.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • The outfielder will receive a $26 million signing bonus and the team will pay close to the same amount to Major League Baseball for overage taxes.
    Paul Skrbina, chicagotribune.com, 27 May 2017
  • Son has been given leave from his Premier League club to take part in Indonesia as one of three overage players that each team is allowed.
    John Duerden, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
  • For the same period, Sprint will also waive roaming voice and text overage fees for its customers in those locations.
    Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Expect them to recommend buying 15 or 20 percent overage to allow for waste in the cutting and fitting.
    Courtney Ortega, star-telegram, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The school, founded in 2001, tries to help struggling, overage middle school students find joy in learning and get back on track toward high school graduation.
    J.l. Kirven, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
  • Unlike Comcast, Charter does not enforce data caps or overage fees.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2018
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overage

2 of 2 noun
  • They paid me back the overage.
  • She kept track of the cost overages.
  • Share or trade your excess plants or overage of seeds and bulbs.
    oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Any team that outspends their pool by 0 to 5 percent would have to pay a 75% take over the overage.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 25 July 2023
  • Houston would have paid at a 20% amount on its overage.
    Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Because of that overage, anyone who wants to open a bar can’t get a license from the state.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2019
  • With current contracts, pending RFAs and the bonus overage, this is what the Stars have left.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 28 June 2021
  • Payments made through the drop box that result in an overage will be applied to the next tax bill.
    Megan Becka, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Add water to cover rice with a little overage in a pot (about one-and-a-half cups).
    Lynn Jones Johnston, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • All the primary providers have an overage alert feature that is simple to set up.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
  • If the growth exceeds 5 percent, the overage is paid for out of the village's general fund reserves.
    Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2018
  • There are overage costs when those pools were exhausted.
    Dwight Silverman, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Teams whose payrolls go above a certain level must pay an overage tax.
    Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The Rangers will either sign one of them below slot value or will agree to be an overage tax for exceeding their pool.
    Dallas News, 27 July 2022
  • When the Aiken money disappeared from the pool, Houston didn't have the overage to honor that commitment to Nix.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2018
  • Any budget overages could have a significant impact on users of the Dulles Toll Road.
    Washington Post, 20 July 2019
  • Under the agreement, if the final cost of the two projects exceeds the GMP, Shook is on the hook for the overages, unless the schools or city decide to expand the scope of work, in which case the schools and-or city would pay.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Comcast began imposing the data cap and overage charges in some states in 2012.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Those then have to be reconciled down to the dosage unit, and any overages or shortages have to be reported to the Board of Pharmacy within 30 days.
    Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Follow in-depth overage of Brainstorm Design on fortune.com.
    Fortune, 1 Mar. 2018
  • For the time being, AT&T also is waiving home internet data overage fees for customers in the program through the end of June.
    Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The company is waiving talk, text and data overage charges during this time.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Ranging from just 7 pounds for the smallest to 9.9 pounds for the largest, the lightweight beauties enable more outfit options and less worry about overage charges.
    Fortune, 11 July 2017
  • The state is asking the court to force CHI Franciscan to pay back the overages, pay civil penalties and court costs, and rescind both agreements with the medical providers.
    Kate Martin, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The 29-year-old Wood is one of New Zealand's three overage players permitted in a squad comprised largely of players under the age of 23.
    Rob Harris, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • Another part of the issue is overage, with the Sox having to lean on the bullpen for more outs due to injury and their starters’ inability to go deep into games.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The vendors, happy for the business volume, sent the overages to one of numerous shell companies.
    Mark Alesia, Indianapolis Star, 6 July 2018
  • Comcast notes that customers who go over the limit will receive a one-time credit waiving overage charges.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 19 Dec. 2021
  • An amateur, however, might need to plan on a 30% overage.
    Madeleine Deliee, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 June 2021
  • While bids exceeded what the city budgeted, staff said the overage could be made up because the city underspent on projects in the East Highland area and Julian Street.
    Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2021

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