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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spoilage
noun
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▪ Behind the scenes, cinema chains enjoy the economies of centralised purchasing and have utilised computers to track inventory and prevent spoilage.
▪ Food product quality is more easily maintained thereby reducing spoilage losses and production time through unscheduled cleaning.
▪ Having a harvester which is more gentle with the crop should reduce damage and so lessen spoilage in the clamp.
▪ Irradiation would make things worse by destroying the warning spoilage bacteria and leaving pathogens untouched.
▪ Later in the spoilage process other components, such as the sulphurous notes from hydrogen sulphide, may add to the smell.
▪ Only beef with a well-developed layer of external fat that protects against spoilage and dehydration is so aged.
Wiktionary
spoilage

n. 1 The part of something that has spoiled. 2 The process of spoiling.

WordNet
spoilage

  1. n. the amount that has spoiled

  2. the process of becoming spoiled [syn: spoiling]

  3. the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate" [syn: spoil, spoiling]

Usage examples of "spoilage".

It reduces spoilage and breakage, and lets us transport goods to market cheaply, using less fuel.

Spells against spoilage, against rot, and against the destruction of any of the myriad containers of the grain, for since it had all been brought from the farms or from Selken ships, it came stored in sacks and barrels, some as milled flour, some as whole grains.

The refrigerator was a disaster—ten days' worth of congealment and spoilage.

Crossing the Whiteridge and the scatter of mining and manufacturing settlements along it, past the huge, man-made heaps of spoilage from the gold mines.

Their blood was a vile carrion fluid, their bones were black sticks mortaring a spoilage of poisons and stringy meat.