breakage
[brey-kij]
noun
the amount or quantity of things broken: There was a great deal of breakage in that shipment of glassware.
an allowance or compensation for the loss or damage of articles broken in transit or in use.
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 of breakage
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Contemporary Examples of breakage
So raucous did the celebration get that City Tavern took the unusual step of sending along a bill for “breakage.”
Historical Examples of breakage
This liability to breakage is reduced, but not eliminated, by the asbestos annealing.
On Laboratory ArtsRichard Threlfall
Abruptly, from the mizzen-mast, came a snap of breakage and crash of fabric.
The Mutiny of the ElsinoreJack London
He could afford to pay for the breakage; he would laugh at dismissal.
Sometimes the hook tears out, but most fish are lost by breakage.
Fishing in British ColumbiaThomas Wilson Lambert
These were large and sound, and were more than a foot in diameter at the points of breakage.
Wild Life on the RockiesEnos A. Mills
breakage
noun
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