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net ton

[ net tuhn ]

noun

  1. Also called net reg·is·ter ton. Nautical. one gross ton registered as taxable.
  2. ton11


net ton

noun

  1. the full name for ton 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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That would likely mean an increase in the toll, currently $3 per net ton, which the shippers would pass on by paying the farmers less for their grains.

From Reuters

Vessels of 2 net tons and upwards are enumerated.

Its capacity of finished steel per annum was 180,000 net tons of steel rails and 20,000 net tons of steel in other shapes.

The troop transport capacity of a ship has heretofore been calculated by the ship's tonnage, that is, sixty per cent. of the ship's capacity is net ton loading space.

The first record of the net tons of freight passing the canal was opened in 1881, which showed an aggregate of 1,567,741 net tons of all kinds of freight.

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