- 1破損（尤指須賠償的破損品）；破損率
Breakage is a slightly formal, business-sounding word for things that get broken — especially when someone has to pay for them. If you work in a restaurant and drop plates, the boss may talk about 'breakage'. If a shop sends you glasses and two arrive cracked, the company calls that breakage. It works two ways. Often it is uncountable, meaning the general fact or amount of breaking: 'The company covers all breakage in transit', 'We lose about 3% to breakage every year.' But it is also used countable, for the broken items themselves: 'You must pay for any breakages.' In Britain the plural 'breakages' is very common on signs and rules; American English leans more towards the uncountable form. It is not a word you use about your own life. Nobody says 'There was a breakage in my kitchen' — you say 'I broke a cup.' Keep it for shops, hotels, delivery companies, insurance, and rental agreements. That is where the money question lives, and that is the real feeling of the word: broken things that someone is responsible for.
組成break + -age. The ending -age came into English from French, and it makes a noun meaning the result or the amount of something — as in leakage, spillage, wastage, shrinkage.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
breakagenoun/ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
The act of breaking.
- 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.
- At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
- 3
accountingbusinessfinanceA service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
- 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.
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