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   Leak·age

   /ˈlēkij/

   

   noun

   • 1. the accidental admission or escape of a fluid or gas through a hole or crack: "we're saving water by reducing leakage"
   • ▪ the gradual escape of an electric charge or current, or magnetic flux.
   • ▪ deliberate disclosure of confidential information.

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   What is leakage?

   • an amount of liquid or gas escaping through a hole in something; an occasion when there is a leak Check bottles for leakage before use. Questions about grammar and vocabulary? Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English. Definition of leakage noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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   What does leakage mean in physics?

   • Physics, Electricity. the loss of all or part of a useful agent, as of the electric current that flows through an insulator leakage current or of the magnetic flux that passes outside useful flux circuits leakage flux. According to Russianoff, leakage is as much a problem on the platforms as it is are inside the cars.

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   What does leaking mean?

   • an act of leaking; leak. something that leaks in or out. the amount that leaks in or out. Commerce. an allowance for loss by leaking.

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   What is insurance leakage?

   • Leakage is premium revenue that is lost, often because a policyholder has not been truthful about facts or lifestyle changes or has committed some fraud . Leakage arising from fraud, poor claims procedures, or simply from lack of proper control procedures costs insurers millions of dollars every year.

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   What causes claims leakage?

   • Leakage arising from fraud, poor claims procedures, or simply from lack of proper control procedures costs insurers millions of dollars every year. In an ideal world, insurers would reduce claims leakage to zero, but some cases, due to fraudulent claims, are unavoidable.

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   a leakage of toxic waste into the sea; Check bottles for leakage before use. Oxford Collocations Dictionary Leakage is used after these nouns: radiation; See full entry.

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   Leakage definition: an act of leaking; leak. . See examples of LEAKAGE used in a sentence.

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   4 meanings: 1. the act or an instance of leaking 2. something that escapes or enters by a leak 3. business an allowance made.... Click for more definitions.

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   leakage: 1 n the discharge of a fluid from some container Synonyms: escape , leak , outflow Type of: discharge , outpouring , run the pouring forth of a fluid

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   LEAKAGE definition: the problem of a liquid or gas coming out of something when it should not: . Learn more.

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   noun. 1. the act or an instance of leaking. 2. something that escapes or enters by a leak. 3. business. an allowance made for partial loss (of stock, etc) due to leaking. 4. physics. a.

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   leakage meaning: the problem of a liquid or gas coming out of something when it should not: . Learn more.