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leakage 1. Commerce an allowance made for partial loss (of stock, etc.) due to leaking 2. Physics a. an undesired flow of electric current, neutrons, etc b. (as modifier): leakage current |
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Hereby the casks are sought to be kept damply tight; while by the changed character of the withdrawn water, the mariners readily detect any serious leakage in the precious cargo. Leakage follows in the form of public works which are neither urgent nor necessary; troops re-uniformed and gold-laced over and over again; vessels sent on useless cruises; preparations for war without ever making it; paying the debts of a State, and not requiring reimbursement or insisting on security. It was a desirable bungalow, eight-roomed, and heavily thatched against any chance of leakage from rain. |
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