breakage

Plural: breakages

Noun

• The action of breaking something, or the damage caused by it.
• the quantity broken
  • "the total breakage was huge"
• reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
• the act of breaking something
  • "the breakage was unavoidable"
• The act of breaking.
• Something that has been broken.
• 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.

Examples

• At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
• The emotional breakage after losing a tight game of Words With Friends is real.

Synonyms

break, breaking

Related Words

fracture