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lossage

noun

Etymology

From loss + -age.

  1. derived from *lews-✻
  2. inherited from *lusą✻
  3. inherited from *los✻
  4. inherited from los
  5. inherited from los
  6. suffixed as lossage — “loss + age”

Definitions

  1. loss, especially systematic or continuous

    • "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."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lossage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA