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break·age
/
ˈbreɪ
kɪdʒ
/
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[
brey
-kij
]
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noun
1.
the act of
breaking
; state of being
broken
.
2.
the amount or quantity of things
broken
:
There was a great deal of breakage in that shipment of glassware.
3.
an allowance or
compensation
for the loss or damage of articles
broken
in transit or in use.
4.
the money accrued by a racetrack from calculating the payoff to winning pari-mutuel bettors only in multiples of dimes for each dollar bet.
Origin:
1805–15;
break
+
-age
Related forms
re·break·age,
noun
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World English Dictionary
breakage
(ˈbreɪkɪdʒ)
—
n
1.
the act or result of breaking
2.
the quantity or amount broken:
the total breakage was enormous
3.
compensation or allowance for goods damaged while in use, transit, etc
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
breakage
1813, "action of breaking," from
break
+
-age
. Meaning "loss or damage done by breaking" is from 1848.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
It indicates that there must have been some
breakage
in their containment.
Scarcely a strain appears in her frame, and there is no
breakage
.
If it does this without loss or
breakage
then it has done its job.
So we're suggesting that double-strand
breakage
could be the molecular basis of
this hypermutable state.
They make a fine yet dark line because they use slimmer leads that have been engineered to reduce
breakage
.
Open the windows and leave the room or car in which the
breakage
took place.
In every case, the container should provide some protection against
breakage
and prevent exposure to the air.
The obvious first step in fixing the country is to eliminate those factors which might have contributed to this
breakage
.
The ionization due to charged radiation causes more serious disruption than simple
breakage
.
Strength means resistance not to bending or to other deformations but to actual
breakage
, however shape may have changed.
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