Definitions for wastages

wastages wast·age

Spelling: [wey-stij]
IPA: /ˈweɪ stɪdʒ/

Wastages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in wastages (aaegsstw).

Definitions for wastages

noun

  1. loss by use, wear, decay, etc.
  2. loss or losses as the result of wastefulness:
  3. the action or process of wasting:
  4. something that is wasted; waste or waste materials:

Origin of wastages

First recorded in 1750-60; waste + -age

Examples for wastages

Farmers feared foreclosure and the wastage of their life efforts.

I do not know; but even this is better than the wastage of the mother-force in life.

And we of the Sixth Regiment were to make good the "wastage of war."

It would be necessary, therefore, to ascend to the sack, and stop the wastage at once.

There was no wastage and the pipes connecting the tanks were in good condition.

It may be only a further development of the sin of woman, the wastage of her womanhood.

All the wastage of meat, such as the frozen chips, belonged to the dog that found it.

The wastage of teachers could only be met by making the career more attractive.

The wastage from the three mentioned was not uniform, but it was constant.

Some allowance for wastage would necessarily have to be made.

Word Value for wastages
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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