Associations to the word «Breakage»

Wiktionary

BREAKAGE, noun. The act of breaking.
BREAKAGE, noun. Something that has been broken.
BREAKAGE, noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

BREAKAGE, noun. The quantity broken; "the total breakage was huge".
BREAKAGE, noun. Reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use.
BREAKAGE, noun. The act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King