breakage
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/
The English word “breakage” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
Etymology
From break + -age.
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