[f. ACRE + -AGE.] Extent or amount of acres; acres collectively or in the abstract. Also attrib. as acreage-rate.
1834. Poor Laws, 58. All or certain of the rate-payers shall employ labourers in proportion to their assessment or acreage.
1859. Sir E. Tennent, Ceylon, II. 235 (ed. 2). Suitable lands yet to be brought under cultivation may add treble to the present acreage.
1860. Times, 4 Jan., 10/6. The tenantry paying a small acreage rate.
1871. Smiles, Character, ii. 62 (1876). The cultivable acreage of our country.
