Breakage
['breɪkɪdʒ] or ['brekɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of breaking something; 'the breakage was unavoidable'.
(noun.) reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use.
(noun.) the quantity broken; 'the total breakage was huge'.
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Definition
(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.
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Examples
- No jar breakage. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A similar breakage was the cause of the fatal Johnstown flood in 1889, which destroyed no less than seven towns, and in which approximately 2000 persons are said to have lost their lives. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- No, no, said Caleb, here's a breakage. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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