breakage

CEFRB2

/ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
noun
Damage or loss caused by breaking.
02
noun
Extra detail
A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.

Examples

The breakage goes from the ankle to the knee. It's like the bone just disintegrated.
The server farm suffered extensive breakage after the earthquake.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

Something that has been broken.
The act of breaking.
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.

In context

At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
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.

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

From break + -age.