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# wastage

«wastage» in Mova's school dictionary: **wasted or lost** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (wastage; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The amount of something that is wasted or lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wastage/#m1)

2) The act of wasting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wastage/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, maths and business: food wastage, water wastage, calculating how much material is lost when cutting. In the formal exam voice: «Calculate the wastage.» means work out the amount lost.

### examples

- The school is trying to cut food wastage at lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wastage/#x1)
- A dripping tap causes a lot of water wastage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wastage/#x2)
- We cut a 50 cm board into 3 pieces of 15 cm, with 5 cm of wastage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wastage/#x3)
- Wastage in the factory was very low. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wastage/#x4)
- Buying too much fruit led to wastage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wastage/#x5)
- Builders allow for some wastage of tiles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wastage/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Close to «waste», but «wastage» often means the amount lost. In maths: wastage = amount you started with − amount used (50 − 45 = 5).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wastage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wastage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.