Definition of "breakages" [breakages]

• Plural form of breakage. (noun)

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• "If the maxim at the head of this paragraph were strictly and impartially enforced, such exacting employers would have to pay pretty smartly for certain "breakages" which occur in the carrying on of a business in which they consider _they_ have no concern -- breakages, to wit, of the girls 'health, spirits, and, often, hearts!"
• "These latter numbers look horrific, and seem hard to believe, but we are currently set on a path (especially now with the "breakages" in the banking system - today there is growing and informed specultion here in Catalonia that Caixa Penedes, and Caixa Catalunya may be the next to go) where it is hard to see how we won't get to that horrible place if no one does anything."
• ""breakages," -- but were not marked by the invasion of any warmer feeling, or a desire for confidences."