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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Length, extent, or amount based on measurement in feet.
  • noun Recorded film or video, especially of a specified nature or subject.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In mining, a piece-work system of paying miners in which they are paid for each running foot of work done.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Cinematography) the amount of film that has been shot.
  • noun a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something.
  • noun A measurement in feet.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done
  • noun film that has been shot

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

foot +‎ -age (foot as a unit of length)

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