Crossword clues for wastage
wastage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wastage \Wast"age\, n. Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1673, a hybrid from waste (v.) + -age.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration 2 (context countable English) Anything lost by wear or waste 3 Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss 4 In hunting, the act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts; usually illegal
WordNet
n. the process of wasting
anything lost by wear or waste
Wikipedia
Wastage was a British term used during World War I. It was used to describe the losses experienced during the war that occurred during times when no infantry attack was taking place. Wastage was deaths as a result of artillery fire on soldiers who were manning their own trenches, not actively attacking the enemy's trenches. On the "quietest days" of the war, the British were losing 7,000 men killed and wounded per day to wastage. Even during major battles, wastage could often exceed casualties suffered during an infantry attack. Such was the case at 3rd Ypres and other major battles, especially later in the war.
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Usage examples of "wastage".
Yet if the President has the power to channel raw materials into the most efficient industrial units and thus save scarce materials from wastage it is difficult to see why the same principle is not applicable to the distribution of fuel oil.
There was much muscle wastage, there was fluid in the lungs, her pericardial sac was enlarged, and she was suffering from Dry Lung Syndrome, presumably caused by the low-pressure recirculated air of your spacecraft.
But the corresponding wastage on the Southern side was unrenewed and unrenewable.
But here we are writing for the modern-minded, and for them it is impossible to think of the world as secure and satisfactory until there exists a single world commonweal, preventing war and controlling those moral, biological, and economic forces and wastages that would otherwise lead to wars.
I did not see my life pass before my eyes, but rather saw the sum of my life imprinted upon that unimportant landscape, and understood that in this cunning design with its drear prospect and trivial monster, all the wastage and impotence of my days, all my misused intellect and defrauded ambitions, all my torpid compulsions and arousals, all my puerile dreams and dissipated hopes and contemptible passions had found their proper resolution.
Raid only to take what we need, no wanton wastage, no despoiling, no burning.
My first choice would've been the Bren gun, one of the best light machine guns of all time: reliable, pretty fair accuracy, steadiness in firing, and with a reasonably low rate of fire, which allowed a better aim without too much ammunition wastage.
It had been a female attacking him in defense of an imagined threat to infants sleeping in another part of its dwelling, and even though its body had displayed the discoloration and muscle wastage of disease and malnutrition, it had come close to inflicting serious injury on him.
The wastage, and lost motion, and plain dumb luck by which things get done on the Caine are simply staggering.