Meaning of wear and tear | Babel Free

Definitions

Damage or depreciation resulting from ordinary use (normally as something excluded from a guarantee or warranty of quality, or as justifying a write-down in a set of accounts).

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The washing machine flooded the basement due to wear and tear, so Margaret was not eligible for insurance.”

“The main obstacles to increasing traffic, in fact, are the heavy gradients and sharp curves on the approaches to the Gotthard Tunnel. Wear-and-tear of the track necessitates frequent attention by the civil engineers and possessions are hard to obtain without reducing the throughput of trains.”

CEFR level