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View synonyms for wastage
wastage
[ wey-stij ]
noun
- loss by use, wear, decay, etc.
- loss or losses as the result of wastefulness:
The annual wastage of time due to illness is appalling.
the steady wastage of erosion.
The river was befouled by factory wastage.
wastage
/ ˈweɪstɪdʒ /
noun
- anything lost by wear or waste
- the process of wasting
- reduction in size of a workforce by retirement, voluntary resignation, etc (esp in the phrase natural wastage )
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Usage
Waste and wastage are to some extent interchangeable, but many people think that wastage should not be used to refer to loss resulting from human carelessness, inefficiency, etc: a waste (not a wastage ) of time/money/effort etc
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Example Sentences
This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
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Seen in this light, infant mortality and the cruel wastage of disease were viewed with complacence.
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And America continued rich and fat until the World War wastage shrank her to skin and bones again.
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Every hour of youth is precious and this wastage is unspeakably expensive.
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We have finished what we have to say about the use of food for the repair of bodily wastage.
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