breakage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of breaking. countable,uncountable
    — A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
  2. Something that has been broken. countable,uncountable
    — At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
  3. A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller. countable,uncountable
  4. 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. countable,uncountable

词形变化

breakages plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antibreakage Berlin breakage syndrome Nijmegen breakage syndrome
相关词
fracture

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-der.
Proto-Germanic *brekaną
Proto-West Germanic *brekan
Old English brecan
Middle English breken
English break
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English breakage
From break + -age.
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