What does portage in French mean?

What is the meaning of the word portage in French? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use portage in French.

The word portage in French means delivery, home delivery, porterage, portage, porting, land leaseback, wage portage, umbrella company. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word portage

delivery, home delivery

nom masculin (distribution à domicile)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Le portage des journaux est souvent un travail d'étudiants.
Newspaper delivery is often a job for students.

porterage

nom masculin (transport à dos d'homme)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Dans certains pays le portage se fait encore par l'homme.
In some countries, porterage is still done by people.

portage

nom masculin (porter une embarcation sur terre)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Pour passer cette chute d'eau, les canyonistes effectue le portage de leur embarcation.
The canyoners had to make a portage to get their boat past the waterfall.

porting

nom masculin (Informatique (traduction vers un autre système) (Computing)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Le portage de cette application d'Unix vers Windows a nécessité 6 mois.
Porting of this application from Unix to Windows took six months.

land leaseback

nom masculin (technique d'acquisition de terrains)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

wage portage

nom masculin (sorte de louage de salariés)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

umbrella company

nom féminin (France (type d'entreprise)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

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