overage
overage — 名詞
1. an amount of money, goods, or supplies that goes beyond what was expected, order
超額；溢額
超出預期或預算的多餘數量
an amount of money, goods, or supplies that goes beyond what was expected, ordered, or paid for, especially as a small surplus left over after a count.
The warehouse manager found a small overage of canned tomatoes after the staff finished the monthly stock count.
倉庫經理在員工完成月底盤點後，發現多了一小批超額的番茄罐頭。
noun: an overage of + countable supplies
Gabriela's phone bill showed a forty-dollar overage because she used too much data while traveling in Brazil.
Gabriela 在巴西旅行時用了太多行動數據，電話帳單上多出了四十美元的超額費用。
collocation: dollar-amount + overage for billing context
Any overage on the construction budget had to be approved by the school board before more bricks were ordered.
工程預算的任何超額部分都必須先經學校董事會核准，才能再訂購更多磚塊。
common context: budget / project overruns
The cashier reported an overage of twelve dollars in the till at the end of the night shift.
夜班結束時，收銀員回報收銀機裡多出了十二美元的溢額。
set phrase: an overage of + cash sum
Ishaan returned the small overage of paint to the hardware store and got a partial refund.
Ishaan 把那一小批超額的油漆退回五金行，拿到了部分退款。
- budget overage
- cash overage
- inventory overage
- billing overage
- data overage
文法句型
an overage of [noun]
[N]-dollar overage
用法筆記
Mostly American English in business, retail, and accounting contexts. Often appears with a specific quantity or dollar amount in front (e.g. 'a fifty-dollar overage'). The opposite shortfall word is 'shortage'.
常見錯誤
overage — 形容詞
- overagepositive
- more overagecomparative
- most overagesuperlative
1. older than the maximum age allowed for a particular activity, job, competition,
超齡的
超過某活動或職位允許的年齡上限
older than the maximum age allowed for a particular activity, job, competition, or programme, and therefore not permitted to take part.
By his twenty-eighth birthday, Christopher was overage for the youth football league and had to join the adult team.
到了二十八歲生日時，Christopher 已超齡，不能再打青年足球聯賽，只好加入成人隊。
predicative: be overage for [activity]
The army turned Adisa away because the recruit was overage by almost three years.
Adisa 被軍方拒絕，因為這位應徵者已超齡將近三歲。
be overage for + role / role-holder
Maeve felt sad when the swimming coach told her she was overage for the under-fifteen national team.
游泳教練告訴 Maeve 她已超齡，不能加入十五歲以下的國家代表隊，她聽了很難過。
common context: youth sport categories
An overage cadet may apply for a waiver if his medical record shows good fitness.
若體檢報告顯示體能良好，超齡的學員可申請豁免。
attributive: overage + person noun
- overage for the team
- overage cadet
- overage applicant
- overage player
- too old
the everyday way to express the same idea outside formal rules
- ineligible by age
more explicit; common in official programme wording
文法句型
be overage
an overage [noun]
用法筆記
Rare in everyday speech; mostly seen in rules for sport leagues, scholarship programmes, military recruitment, and school admissions. Usually paired with 'for [a role / programme]'. Compare 'underage', which is the matching opposite.