Meaning of baggage in English:

baggage

Pronunciation /ˈbaɡɪdʒ/

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noun

mass noun

1Suitcases and bags containing personal belongings packed for travelling; luggage.
‘we collected our baggage before clearing customs’
- ‘a baggage allowance’
- ‘A sheet left inside suitcase luggage or travel baggage can prevent musty odors.’
- ‘The new powers, announced yesterday, include the authority to search personal baggage of travellers arriving from countries outside the European Union.’
- ‘She travels with her baggage allowance of 70 pounds.’
- ‘He plans to wean passengers off checked-in luggage over the long term, eliminating the need for baggage handling, suitcase holding areas and lost property.’
- ‘United's baggage allowance on domestic flights does indeed limit suitcases to 50 pounds each.’
- ‘The bus driver unloaded all suitcases and other baggage from the trunk.’
- ‘The new regulation closes a major loophole by extending customs law to include personal baggage, typically used in the small-scale traffic of counterfeit items.’
- ‘A policy should normally cover your belongings and baggage, but again look carefully at exclusions, excesses and ceilings on each claim.’
- ‘The second plank of the prosecution case is forensic, with claims that drug and explosive residue was discovered on baggage belonging to the men.’
- ‘Now under baggage handling, full luggage goes to the first floor of the airport and then comes back to the ground floor because of the lack of space.’
- ‘Travellers are regularly being advised to ‘Keep all your personal baggage with you at all times’.’
- ‘I have packed my bags and baggage ready to go when I can and it's soon I'll book my passage home to the Isle of Man.’
- ‘Unbeknown to him, a poison challis was slipped into his personal baggage.’
- ‘Carry-on baggage and luggage that is checked in will also be weighed.’
- ‘To increase the meagre 15 kg baggage allowance to 20 kg costs an extra 15.’
- ‘And it was written down that he would arrive at Heathrow airport in April 2001 with just a suitcase for baggage and a head filled with dreams.’
- ‘A 30 kg baggage allowance would enable us to cart most of India's artefacts home with us.’
- ‘Each weighs up to 20 kilograms - your baggage allowance on an economy flight.’
- ‘The first thing on the agenda is off loading our baggage and going through customs.’
- ‘Since the light aircraft from Christchurch to Napier can hardly lift nearly three tonnes of baggage, the luggage has to come via road after taking a lengthy detour.’
luggage, suitcases, cases, bags, trunks
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1. 1.1The portable equipment of an army.
  ‘the artillery and baggage rumbled along the road’
  ‘The Roman army baggage train contained all the features of subsequent logistic tails - food, ammunition, and specialist equipment.’
  ‘The retreating army and its baggage carried the plague home with them in autumn 1349.’
  ‘Gallus eventually got his army away in the night, but he left behind 6,000 dead and all of his artillery and baggage.’
  ‘The Tuareg were not so foolish as to allow this to happen so by mid summer the French commander was forced to make a bonfire of his baggage and equipment at Iferouane.’
  ‘They captured him, but left most of his baggage, together with a lot of papers, scattered about the bivouac where they had captured him.’
  ‘The forage and baggage came into camp promptly, and this contributed greatly to celerity of movement and comfort for man and beast.’
  ‘If you can get upon the field, leaving all your baggage on the east bank of the river, it will be a move to our advantage and possibly save the day to us.’
  ‘With four folks in the front and rear buckets and only three hours of fuel plus reserve aboard, for example, you could bring along 300 pounds of baggage.’
  ‘Part of the plot hinges on the assumption that Philia, the heroine, has been sold to a soldier as a piece of military baggage and the attempts by Pseudolus and his cohorts to prevent this.’
  ‘Each first-class cavalryman, three or four second-class cavalrymen and sixteen infantrymen had a slave or paid servant to look after baggage and perform menial chores.’
  ‘Soldiers marching with baggage, when they once enter on the southern or Pisidian route 3o miles west of the Limnai, must go on past the double lake.’
  ‘The inconvenience and delay occasioned by the care of so much baggage caused the Romans to call it impedimenta.’
  ‘Cæsar had been marching with his legionshe had eight in his forceeach followed by its own baggage, and so far, therefore, separated from each other.’
  ‘The Defenders, who have the Baggage Train, must deliver it no matter what the cost!’
  ‘At the first moment of sunrise the passage began, the troops marching across one bridge, the baggage and attendants crossing the other.’
  ‘In the mean time my servants had arrived, the lost mattress was restored to the baggage, and West and I, in light marching order, started for Brussels.’
  ‘A brigade of infantry marching in column of fours, without its baggage, would take about 15 minutes to cross a bridge (moving at 2+mph).’
  ‘Our cannon, baggage and sick, were drawn by Mexican oxen, in Mexican carts.’
  ‘Legge, Therefore a wise prince, marching the whole day, does not go far from his baggage waggons.’
  ‘A few introductory words about how the Romans transported their baggage is in order.’
2Past experiences or long-held attitudes perceived as burdensome encumbrances.
‘the emotional baggage I'm hauling around’
- ‘If you want to drop a load of emotional baggage and experience some psychic weight loss, Gemini time makes it easy to lighten up.’
- ‘And that could be said for everybody except Paddy, who carries the least burdensome emotional baggage.’
- ‘Exonerating can help free family members up from unnecessary burdens of past baggage.’
- ‘With so much emotional baggage attached to their professions, doctors and nurses make perfect subjects for romantic drama.’
- ‘Journalists normally fret about negative campaigning and condemn attacks that dig out personal baggage in a candidate's background.’
- ‘Most actors hate it when journalists make connections between them and the characters they play, but Rampling has never been afraid to admit how much personal baggage she brings to a part.’
- ‘Her own personal baggage distinguishes her works.’
- ‘Few players seem to reach big-time sport without some crises along the way, such as injuries, self-doubt, mismanagement or personal baggage.’
- ‘I think every artist has to reveal little bit of their personal baggage on a record, but sometime when you are being creative, you take on a role.’
- ‘The baggage of his personal eccentricity weighs quite heavily on the film in which the villain is not some colourful underworld figure but the very father who gave you birth.’
- ‘However, the promise of non-lethal technologies comes with considerable baggage.’
- ‘The blind athlete would like the same opportunity to participate as anyone else without carrying along any baggage or special responsibilities.’
- ‘During his music years, Gamble did some serious thinking and came to realize that the drive for civil rights brought negative baggage along with it.’
- ‘Some Black women carry heavy baggage along with their great credentials.’
- ‘It just seems some people I guess are often scared off by the baggage, the cultural baggage that goes along with it.’
- ‘Because it seems to - you know, as you get a little bit older, you have all these - you have so much baggage that comes along with you.’
- ‘But this film is Australian, with quite specific historical baggage that goes along with Australian race relations.’
- ‘Furthermore, if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring along its imperial baggage.’
- ‘Instead, they move from set-piece to set-piece, seldom bringing anything but the most crude of psychological baggage along with them.’
- ‘In the other corner was the Minister of Finance, whose Government carries so much baggage it was terribly difficult for him to get in a blow with any force at all.’
3 dated, derogatory count noun A cheeky or disagreeable girl or woman.
- ‘she was a mercenary little baggage’
- ‘And he said she was a baggage to have said what she had said.’
- ‘I always knew she was a baggage.’
- ‘She's a baggage, and shall never see another penny of mine,--that's flat!’
- ‘"She's a baggage, is that Rose Watson," she said, addressing a vagrant black-beetle in the kitchen which she had failed to squash, "with no more heart than a dead heifer."’