breakage

English

Etymology

break +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/
• Hyphenation: break‧age

Noun

breakage (countable and uncountable, plural breakages)

1. The act of breaking.
2. Something that has been broken.

   At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.

3. (accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
4. 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.

Derived terms

• Berlin breakage syndrome
• Nijmegen breakage syndrome

 

Translations

action of breaking

• Bulgarian: чупене n (čupene), трошене n (trošene)
• Finnish: rikkominen (fi), särkeminen (fi); rikkoutuminen (fi), särkyminen (fi)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brekkasje m

  Nynorsk: brekkasje m

something that has been broken

• Bulgarian: нещо счупено (nešto sčupeno)
• Finnish: särkynyt esine
• German: Anbruch (de) m
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• Greek:

  Ancient: ῥῆγμα n (rhêgma)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brekkasje m

  Nynorsk: brekkasje m

See also

• fracture