wear and tear

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛəɹ ən ˈtɛəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

wear and tear (uncountable)

1. Damage or depreciation resulting from ordinary use (normally as something excluded from a guarantee or warranty of quality, or as justifying a write-down in a set of accounts).

   The washing machine flooded the basement due to wear and tear, so Margaret was not eligible for insurance.

   • 1962 July, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Increasing Swiss Federal route capacities”, in Modern Railways, page 58:

     The main obstacles to increasing traffic, in fact, are the heavy gradients and sharp curves on the approaches to the Gotthard Tunnel. Wear-and-tear of the track necessitates frequent attention by the civil engineers and possessions are hard to obtain without reducing the throughput of trains.

Translations

damage from ordinary use

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磨損 / 磨损 (zh) (mósǔn)

• Danish: slitage (da) c
• Finnish: kuluminen (fi)
• French: usure (fr) f normale
• German: Abnutzung (de) f, Verschleiß (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τριβή f (tribḗ)

• Hungarian: elhasználódás (hu), kopás (hu), elkopás (hu), amortizáció (hu)
• Icelandic: slit (is) n
• Italian: usura (it) f, consumo (it) m, logoramento (it) m
• Latin: intertrīmentum n
• Latvian: laika zobs m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slitasje (no) m

  Nynorsk: slitasje (no) m

• Occitan: usança (oc) f, usura f, usadura, abenatge (oc)
• Persian: استهلاک (fa) (estehlâk)
• Portuguese: desgaste (pt)
• Spanish: desgaste (es) m
• Swahili: uchakavu
• Telugu: అరుగుదల (te) (arugudala)

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