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.
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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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Three years ago, we compiled evidence revealing that an error called leakage — the machine learning version of teaching to the test — was pervasive, affecting hundreds of papers from 17 disciplines.
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Many of the young men who have attacked schools, movie theaters, supermarkets and churches in recent years deliberately or unintentionally hinted at their rage, violent fantasies or plans well before their attacks — a phenomenon that researchers call “leakage.”
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