Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of leaking.
- noun Something that escapes by leaking.
- noun An amount lost as the result of leaking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leaking; a passing, of a fluid, etc., by or as if by leaking.
- noun The quantity of a fluid that enters or escapes by leaking; loss from leaking: as, the leakage amounts to so much.
- noun In com., an allowance of a certain rate per cent. for the leaking of casks, or waste by leaking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.
- noun (Com.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
- noun (Elec.) A
leak{3} ; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an act of
leaking , or something thatleaks - noun the amount
lost due to a leak - noun an
undesirable flow ofelectric current throughinsulation - noun loss of
retail stock , especially due totheft
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the discharge of a fluid from some container
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Examples
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I mean, clearly, there was a lot of what we refer to as leakage, the evidence that there's an underlying violent fantasy life that is likely an antidote for his feelings of inadequacy.
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Mohandie says at least two-thirds of these incidents involve what he calls a leakage of fantasy life.
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"We've got what we call a leakage," Surprise Councilman Skip Hall said.
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"Certainly, with Columbine, there was plenty of what we call leakage," Williams said.
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Many of our readers have said this talent leakage is not such a big deal, as it allows people a chance of upward mobility.
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Its study concluded that there was no difference in leakage rates across all absorbencies of both brands.
Archive 2009-07-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Despite selective leakage from the government, it has never been fully explained how both the real Mohamud and a supposed "impostor" were allegedly able to frequent the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi during the long homeward struggle -- with no one noticing the difference.
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Thought leakage is pretty interesting though, and one version of it is singing a song.
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Another leakage from the corporate world into government.
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Its study concluded that there was no difference in leakage rates across all absorbencies of both brands.
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