breakage

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of breaking.
2. (countable, uncountable) Something that has been broken.
3. (countable, uncountable) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Synonyms

break

breaking

breakdown

fracture

rupture

tear

failure

abruption

cracking

crash

damage

beating

mutilation

outworn

rapture

rift

ruin

scrap

smash

snap

torn

vitiate

wastage

worn

wreckage

ecphlysis

crack

br

out-of-repair

flying-off

rhegma

breaking-down

out-break

failure breaking

breach

broken

burst

collapsing

damaged

destruction

disrepair

disruption

disruptive

fragmentation

impair

Translations

Bruch

rotura

σπάσιμο

casse

Bruchstelle

kırılma

kırma

cassure

θραύση

ζημιά

rottura

rompimento

Setzkasten

Schlagen

ruptura

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From break + -age.