breakage.
The act of breaking.
Meaning & usage
The act of breaking.
Something that has been broken.
At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English break Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English breakage From break + -age.
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