Breakage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of breaking.
  • n. A quantity broken.
  • n. Loss or damage as a result of breaking.
  • n. A commercial allowance for loss or damage.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of breaking.
  • n. Something that has been broken.
  • n. The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
  • n. An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of breaking.
  • n. The amount or quantity of anything broken: as, the breakage was excessive; allowance for breakage of goods in transit.
  • n. Nautical, the act of leaving empty spaces in stowing the hold.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
  • n. the act of breaking something
  • n. the quantity broken
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    reimbursement    indefinite quantity   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    break    breaking    break-in   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    trou    misappropriation    corrosion    burchwell   
     
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