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

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis