'Leakage' definitions:
Definition of 'leakage'
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Definition of 'Leakage'
From: GCIDE
- Leakage \Leak"age\, n. [Cf. D. lekkage, for sense 1.]
- 1. A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Com.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Elec.) A leak[3]; also; the quantity of electricity thus wasted. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'leakage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablation,
- access,
- admission,
- break,
- breakout,
- consumption,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- dissipation,
- distillation,
- drain,
- dribble,
- drip,
- dripping,
- drippings,
- drop,
- emergence,
- entrance,
- entree,
- entry,
- erosion,
- escape,
- escapism,
- evaporation,
- evasion,
- exhaustion,
- expenditure,
- extrication,
- flight,
- freeing,
- getaway,
- import,
- importation,
- importing,
- impoverishment,
- income,
- incoming,
- infiltration,
- ingoing,
- ingress,
- ingression,
- input,
- insertion,
- insinuation,
- intake,
- interpenetration,
- introduction,
- introgression,
- intrusion,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- leak,
- leaking,
- liberation,
- outlet,
- penetration,
- percolation,
- prisonbreak,
- reception,
- release,
- rescue,
- riddance,
- seepage,
- setting-free,
- shrinkage,
- trickle,
- using,
- using up,
- vent,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wearing,
- wearing away