Breakage Definition

brākĭj
noun
An act or instance of breaking.
Webster's New World
Things or quantity broken.
Webster's New World
Loss or damage due to breaking.
Webster's New World
The sum allowed for such loss or damage.
Webster's New World

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.

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Noun

Singular:
breakage
Plural:
breakages

Breakage Sentence Examples

  • Hoisting ropes are weakened by deterioration and breakage of the wires, due to corrosion and repeated bending.

  • The product produces stronger lashes with less breakage.

  • The headache-post is a vertical wooden beam placed on the main sill directly below the walking-beam, to receive the weight of the latter in case of breakage of connexions.

  • Feeding Sasha information about the only way to break the bond—without telling him the breakage was only temporary— rendered the girl he.d been tracking for weeks vulnerable.

  • There is ample equipment of fixed and movable staiths and cranes of various sizes up to 70 tons, the Lewis-Hunter patent cranes being largely used for shipping coal owing to their minimizing the breakage of coal and securing its even distribution.

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Words Starting With

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EGEAGE

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