Breakage

Definitions

1. The act of breaking.
   countable, uncountable
2. Something that has been broken.
   countable, uncountable
3. A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
   countable, uncountable
4. 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.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

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