Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of leaking.
- n. Something that escapes by leaking.
- n. An amount lost as the result of leaking.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A leaking; a passing, of a fluid, etc., by or as if by leaking.
- n. The quantity of a fluid that enters or escapes by leaking; loss from leaking: as, the leakage amounts to so much.
- n. In com., an allowance of a certain rate per cent. for the leaking of casks, or waste by leaking.
Wiktionary
- n. an act of leaking, or something that leaks
- n. the amount lost due to a leak
- n. an undesirable flow of electric current through insulation
- n. loss of retail stock, especially due to theft
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.
- n. (Com.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
- n. (Elec.) A leak{3}; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the discharge of a fluid from some container
Examples
“I mean, clearly, there was a lot of what we refer to as leakage, the evidence that there's an underlying violent fantasy life that is likely an antidote for his feelings of inadequacy.”
“Mohandie says at least two-thirds of these incidents involve what he calls a leakage of fantasy life.”
“We've got what we call a leakage," Surprise Councilman Skip Hall said.”
“Despite selective leakage from the government, it has never been fully explained how both the real Mohamud and a supposed "impostor" were allegedly able to frequent the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi during the long homeward struggle -- with no one noticing the difference.”
“Another leakage from the corporate world into government.”
“Its study concluded that there was no difference in leakage rates across all absorbencies of both brands.”
“Many of our readers have said this talent leakage is not such a big deal, as it allows people a chance of upward mobility.”
“Thought leakage is pretty interesting though, and one version of it is singing a song.”
“Then I began reading about the results of scientific studies - which uniformly showed that there was no connection between the leakage from the breast implants and the specific types of injuries the women were claiming.”
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