EGAVE

breakage

About 1.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of breaking.
  2. noun Something that has been broken.
    At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
  3. noun A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
  4. noun 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.

Similar words

breaking break fracture rupture collapse breach burst scrap shredding splitting

Often followed by

of and in or is by during at was

Word family

breakages

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