Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of breaking.
- noun A quantity broken.
- noun Loss or damage as a result of breaking.
- noun A commercial allowance for loss or damage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of breaking.
- noun The amount or quantity of anything broken: as, the breakage was excessive; allowance for breakage of goods in transit.
- noun Nautical, the act of leaving empty spaces in stowing the hold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
- noun An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
breaking . - noun Something that has been
broken . - 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
- noun the act of breaking something
- noun the quantity broken
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Examples
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He also said that gloves minimise skin breakage and unsightly blood & bruising, but do nothing to reduce the impact on the punchees brain.
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No matter what, breakage is not acceptable, not like this.
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I almost always decide to live with it, because breakage is too painful, and you also lose the trust of the people you want to work with.
Amyloo and Frontier’s website framework « Scripting News Annex 2006
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Wednesday afternoon was fun, spent it wandering around with the delicious Tiki and the shameless Danny … there were propositions and comments about helmuts and hiding and and I think blocked the other comments he made due to brain breakage …
October 15th, 2004 mynxii 2004
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The reason they came up with the word breakage is that the gift card system was more than a little bit broken.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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The unspent money -- which the gift card industry calls "breakage" -- sits in an escrow account until the issuer, often a retail giant, decides to recognize it as revenue.
Startup Tango Card Aims To Save Billions In Lost Gift Card Value The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The unspent money -- which the gift card industry calls "breakage" -- sits in an escrow account until the issuer, often a retail giant, decides to recognize it as revenue.
Startup Tango Card Aims To Save Billions In Lost Gift Card Value The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The unspent money -- which the gift card industry calls "breakage" -- sits in an escrow account until the issuer, often a retail giant, decides to recognize it as revenue.
Startup Tango Card Aims To Save Billions In Lost Gift Card Value The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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This policy of creating "breakage" - a situation where people give up instead of completing a read, a form, or a complaint - is common in many consumer situations.
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This policy of creating "breakage" - a situation where people give up instead of completing a read, a form, or a complaint - is common in many consumer situations.
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