Definitions for breakage

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breakage break·age

Spelling: [brey-kij]

IPA: /ˈbreɪ kɪdʒ/

Breakage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in breakage (aabeegkr).

Definitions for breakage

noun

1. the act of breaking; state of being broken.
2. the amount or quantity of things broken:
3. an allowance or compensation for the loss or damage of articles broken in transit or in use.
4. the money accrued by a racetrack from calculating the payoff to winning pari-mutuel bettors only in multiples of dimes for each dollar bet.

Origin of breakage

First recorded in 1805-15; break + -age

Examples for breakage

This liability to breakage is reduced, but not eliminated, by the asbestos annealing.

In 1747 there was less liqueur; the breakage amounted to one-third of the whole.

A parachute protects the instruments from breakage from too rapid fall.

Sometimes the hook tears out, but most fish are lost by breakage.

The risk of breakage is so great that there is nothing to be gained.

He could afford to pay for the breakage; he would laugh at dismissal.

So raucous did the celebration get that City Tavern took the unusual step of sending along a bill for “breakage.”

Abruptly, from the mizzen-mast, came a snap of breakage and crash of fabric.

Her endurance had been urged to the point of breakage, had given way.

These were large and sound, and were more than a foot in diameter at the points of breakage.