pumpage

English

Etymology

pump +‎ -age

Noun

pumpage (countable and uncountable, plural pumpages)

1. That which is raised by pumps.
2. The amount of work done by pumps.
   • 1962, Arthur John Zeizel, Ground-water resources of Du Page County, Illinois:

     A comparison of Silurian dolomite aquifer water-level hydrographs and pumpage graphs indicates that in general water-level decline is directly proportional to pumpage and suggests that recharge balances discharge.