Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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.
Wiktionary
- 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
- n. the act of breaking something
- n. the quantity broken
Examples
“He also said that gloves minimise skin breakage and unsightly blood & bruising, but do nothing to reduce the impact on the punchees brain.”
“No matter what, breakage is not acceptable, not like this.”
“I almost always decide to live with it, because breakage is too painful, and you also lose the trust of the people you want to work with.”
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“Wednesday afternoon was fun, spent it wandering around with the delicious Tiki and the shameless Danny … there were propositions and comments about helmuts and hiding and and I think blocked the other comments he made due to brain breakage …”
“The reason they came up with the word breakage is that the gift card system was more than a little bit broken.”
“This policy of creating "breakage" - a situation where people give up instead of completing a read, a form, or a complaint - is common in many consumer situations.”
The Huffington Post: Jim Randel: Dumb Advice: "Read the Fine Print"
“The unspent money -- which the gift card industry calls "breakage" -- sits in an escrow account until the issuer, often a retail giant, decides to recognize it as revenue.”
The Huffington Post: Startup Tango Card Aims To Save Billions In Lost Gift Card Value
“The results for the quarter ended Feb. 2 would have been worse without one-time tax benefits and a gain from gift-card "breakage" -- an industry term for the small, unredeemed amounts that remain on gift cards and are kept by retailers.”
“If horse #1 wins, the house gets $39.80 (20%) plus $1.20 in breakage (each bettor loses $.06 in breakage.”
A Freakonomics Quiz for Horse Players - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“In materials that will spring to some extent without breakage, that is, in parts that are not brittle, it may be possible to force the work out of shape with jacks or wedges (Figure 27) in the same way that it would be distorted by heating and expanding some portion of it as described.”
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Mirrored Vowels
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• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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The -ages of Man(-age)
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manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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-age
condition; result of; account; number of; cost of; place of; collection of; home of; to act
marriage, acreage, postage, steerage, peerage, hermitage, forage, Hermitage, pilgrimage, baggage, blockage, carnage and 24 more...
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