leakage

UK: /ˈliːkɪdʒ/ US: /ˈlikɪdʒ/ ,(lē′kij)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

leak•age /ˈlikɪdʒ/   n. 

1. an act of leaking;
   a leak;
   an amount of such leaking:
   [uncountable] to prevent leakage.
   [countable] leakages all through the ship's hull.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

leak•age  (lē′kij), n. 

1. an act of leaking;
   leak.
2. something that leaks in or out.
3. the amount that leaks in or out.
4. Business [Com.] an allowance for loss by leaking.
5. Electricity, Physics [Physics, Elect.] the loss of all or part of a useful agent, as of the electric current that flows through an insulator (leak′age cur′rent) or of the magnetic flux that passes outside useful flux circuits (leak′age flux′.)

• leak + -age 1480–90

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leakage / ˈliːkɪdʒ/ noun

1. the act or an instance of leaking
2. something that escapes or enters by a leak
3. an undesired flow of electric current, neutrons, etc