lossage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lossage (countable and uncountable, plural lossages)
- loss, especially systematic or continuous
- 1918, Lem P. Jordan, Peanut Promoter[1], volume 2, page 100:
- "The superior quality of the 1918 crop will reduce the lossage by at least 5 per cent, which amount should be sufficient to offset any discrepancy between actual figures and our estimate given above."