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WASTAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wastage mean?
• WASTAGE (noun)
The noun WASTAGE has 2 senses:
1. the process of wasting
2. anything lost by wear or waste
Familiarity information: WASTAGE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of wasting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("wastage" is a kind of...):
decrease; decrement (a process of becoming smaller or shorter)
Derivation:
waste (become physically weaker)
waste (cause to grow thin or weak)
waste (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Anything lost by wear or waste
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("wastage" is a kind of...):
loss (something that is lost)
Context examples
All the wastage of meat, such as the frozen chips, belonged to the dog that found it.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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