lossage

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English

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Etymology

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From loss +‎ -age.

Noun

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lossage (countable and uncountable, plural lossages)

  1. loss, especially systematic or continuous
    • 1918, Lem P. Jordan, Peanut Promoter[1], volume 2, page 100:
      "The superior quality of the 1918 crop will reduce the lossage by at least 5 per cent, which amount should be sufficient to offset any discrepancy between actual figures and our estimate given above."

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