breakage

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breakage

/ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/

Rhymes with -eɪkɪdʒ

noun breakages

countable, uncountable The act of breaking. A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
countable, uncountable Something that has been broken. At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
countable, uncountable A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
countable, uncountable The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.

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noun action of breaking

Español	rompimiento, rotura

noun something that has been broken

Deutsch	Anbruch

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@misc{breakage_2026,
  title = {breakage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/breakage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}