fee paid by a railroad to the owner of a car for the time it spends on the railroad's property. Pronounced by U.S. railroaders per die-um, not per dee-um.

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[Source: "Rail terminology" at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_terminology)]