Associations to the word «Breakage»

Wiktionary

BREAKAGE, noun. The act of breaking.
BREAKAGE, noun. Something that has been broken.
BREAKAGE, noun. The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.

Dictionary definition

BREAKAGE, noun. The quantity broken; "the total breakage was huge".
BREAKAGE, noun. Reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use.
BREAKAGE, noun. The act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable".

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery