Usually means: Loss of resources or potential.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word wastage:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. wastage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wastage: Merriam-Webster
  3. wastage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wastage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wastage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wastage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wastage, wastage: Wordnik
  8. wastage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wastage: Wiktionary
  10. wastage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wastage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wastage: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wastage: Dictionary.com
  14. Wastage (military): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Wastage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. wastage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. wastage: Rhymezone
  18. Wastage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. wastage: FreeDictionary.org
  20. wastage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. wastage: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WASTAGE: Accounting Glossary
  2. wastage: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wastage: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wastage: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wastage: Backgammon

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
noun:  (uncountable) The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
noun:  (countable) Anything lost by wear or waste.
noun:  (uncountable) Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
noun:  (hunting, countable) The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.

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