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| tare [ ter ] |
noun (plural tares) |
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1. weight of packaging: the weight of a container or of the packaging used to wrap goods
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2. allowance for weight of packaging: an allowance for the packaging around goods, deducted from the total weight and not included in transportation costs
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3. unladen weight of vehicle: the weight of a motor vehicle without fuel, cargo, passengers, or equipment
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4. container of known weight: a container of known weight that is used as a counterbalance when calculating the net weight of a cargo
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transitive verb (past and past participle tared, present participle tar·ing, 3rd person present singular tares) |
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weigh packaging: to weigh packaging in order to calculate the amount of tare to be deducted from a cargo
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| [15th century. Via French, "waste in goods, deficiency" < Arabic ṭarḥ "that which is deducted" < ṭaraḥa "reject, subtract"] |
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