- the act of breaking; state of being broken.
- the amount or quantity of things broken: There was a great deal of breakage in that shipment of glassware.
- an allowance or compensation for the loss or damage of articles broken in transit or in use.
- the money accrued by a racetrack from calculating the payoff to winning pari-mutuel bettors only in multiples of dimes for each dollar bet.
- the act or result of breaking
- the quantity or amount broken
- compensation or allowance for goods damaged while in use, transit, etc
