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- noun Plural form of
wastage .
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Examples
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Whether Kolar is going to be able to sustain the town during forthcoming summer months is open to question as leakages and wastages – public and private – have remained uncontrolled.
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The chief reason for this is that it is not susceptible to any loss arising out of wastages when resold.
GOLD GLITTERS 2008
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The DoT and committee needed to introduce appropriate legislation setting up a benefit system that was equitable, affordable, sustainable, and appropriate for the country, and eliminated wastages, inefficiencies and leakages inherent in the current system.
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Now that it has been decided, it is not possible to undo the time wastages of the past.
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The Gauteng government, recognising its own inefficiencies and wastages, was actively cutting costs and reprioritising, Moleketi said.
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Now that it has been decided, it is not possible to undo the time wastages of the past.
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Durbanville town hall north of Cape Town on Tuesday, Mr Manuel listed the Government's alleged wastages in education, health and housing spheres.
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Indeed, it is difficult for those accustomed to the marine steam service to sit down and enumerate by memory in one day the thousand little treasury leaks, the many wastages, the formidable bill of extras, and the items which are necessary to keep every thing in its place, and to pay every body for what he does.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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Then a second expeditionary force is sent, but that would have been unnecessary had any sort of arrangement been thought out for promptly replacing first wastages in men and in shell.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Ian Hamilton 1900
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We philosophers of the madroño grove, we wrecks and wastages of life here in the quiet backwater and easement of Dick's munificence, are a brotherhood of lovers.
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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