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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee

Meaning of "wastage" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WASTAGE

wastage  [ˈweɪstɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WASTAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wastage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WASTAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wastage in the English dictionary

The first definition of wastage in the dictionary is anything lost by wear or waste. Other definition of wastage is the process of wasting. Wastage is also reduction in size of a workforce by retirement, voluntary resignation, etc.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WASTAGE


advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
cottage
ˈkɒtɪdʒ
disadvantage
ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
footage
ˈfʊtɪdʒ
forestage
ˈfɒrɪstɪdʒ
frontage
ˈfrʌntɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
high-voltage
ˈhaɪˌvəʊltɪdʒ
hostage
ˈhɒstɪdʒ
lastage
ˈlɑːstɪdʒ
outage
ˈaʊtɪdʒ
percentage
pəˈsɛntɪdʒ
portage
ˈpɔːtɪdʒ
postage
ˈpəʊstɪdʒ
reportage
rɪˈpɔːtɪdʒ
shortage
ˈʃɔːtɪdʒ
vantage
ˈvɑːntɪdʒ
vestige
ˈvɛstɪdʒ
vintage
ˈvɪntɪdʒ
voltage
ˈvəʊltɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WASTAGE

wast
Wast Water
wastable
wastage rate
waste
waste disposal
waste disposal unit
waste ground
waste heat recovery
Waste Land
waste management
waste material
waste minimization
waste pipe
waste products
waste water
wastebasket
wastebin
wasted
wasteful

WORDS THAT END LIKE WASTAGE

arena stage
backstage
centre stage
committee stage
downstage
interstage
key stage
landing stage
montage
multistage
offstage
onstage
planning stage
proof of postage
report stage
restage
sound stage
stage
substage
the stage
upstage

Synonyms and antonyms of wastage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wastage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WASTAGE

Find out the translation of wastage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wastage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wastage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

浪费
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desgaste
570 millions of speakers

English

wastage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपव्यय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهدر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отходы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desperdício
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপচয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gaspillage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pembaziran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verlust
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

浪費
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

낭비
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wastage
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lãng phí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விரயம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपव्यय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fire
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spreco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odpady
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відходи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pierderile
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σπατάλη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vermorsing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slöseri
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

svinn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wastage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WASTAGE»

The term «wastage» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.985 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WASTAGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wastage

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4 QUOTES WITH «WASTAGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wastage.
1
J. Carter Brown
I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
2
Andrew Dominik
For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film.
3
Bruce Lee
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
4
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WASTAGE»

Discover the use of wastage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wastage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Construction Project Management
But there is inherent materials wastage associated with all types of materials. For example, the actual requirement of concrete for the floor slab of a building may be 2% more than the theoretical quantities measured from the drawing, as certain  ...
K. K. Chitkara, 1998
2
A Report on the Causes of Wastage of Labour in Munitions ...
(g) Hours of Labour and Wastage. Table 77 contains particulars of hours of labour brought into comparison with rates of wastage at ages 28 and over (these latter rates being, I think, sensitive indices of change). It is evident that the two ...
Major Greenwood, 1918
3
Personnel Management
Exhibit 6.5 Calculation of Manpower Overtime & Wastage Rates* 1. TIME SERIES AND TRENDS A set of observed values at different intervals of time. They are classified chronologically. This may seek casual relationship between variables.
Monappa, 1996
4
Wastage of Children
On child mortality and family planning in India.
Surjit Kaur, 1978
5
Progress in Evolutionary Computation: AI '93 and AI '94 ...
Problem la with contiguity Ord: Ord: Ord: Ord: Ord: Ord: Ord: Ord: Ord: 10 Wastage: 0 | 14 Open: 2 10 Wastage: 0 j 14 Open: 1 10 Wastage: 1 j 14 Open: 1 3 : 8 Wastage: 0 | 14 Open: 2 3 : 8 Wastage: 0 j 14 Open: 0 6 Wastage: 2 | 14 Open: 0 7 ...
Xin Yao, 1995
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ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGEMENT
Wastage which is bound to arise is normal wastage and must be treated as an additional charge on the usable units produced. The scrap value of the normal wastage and its quantity will appear in the credit side of the concerning process.
VIJAYAKUMAR
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High-Temperature Corrosion and Materials Applications
Also observed in the high wastage areas were carbon-rich deposits and pyrites. Urich and Kramer (Ref 10) reported that four supercritical boilers (each with 676 MWe, opposed-fired) at Gibson Generating Station were retrofitted with low NOx  ...
George Y. Lai, 2007
8
Eclectic medical journal
The scrap of iron, the cast-off shoe, the ash of the wood, constituting much of a city's wastage, need but the scientist's touch to become a beautiful blue pigment that richly colors the ribbon that graces a lady's throat. Numberless are the uses to ...
Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association, Worthington College (Ohio) Reformed Medical Dept, 1919
9
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2009: ...
A 16 x 8 thick edge is still not sufficiently large to catch all forced wastage, but we are unable to make it any larger due to memory constraints, as the memory requirement is exponential in the width of the lookahead. Interestingly, if Conjecture ...
Ian P. Gent, 2009
10
Sixth Form&Coll Entrnc Ils 234
This chapter focuses on the problem of wastage, which received a brief abstract treatment in the first chapter. The problem of wastage in the educational system has long been a source of concern. Here we are interested in wastage at the point ...
Raymond Morris, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WASTAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wastage is used in the context of the following news items.
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The environmental cost of food wastage, like its economic cost, too …
What is also linked closely is the problem of food wastage: FAO says up to one-third of all food is spoiled or squandered before it is consumed by people. «YourStory.com, Jul 15»
2
New guidelines in the pipeline to cut food wastage in Dubai
“We are also collecting information on Ramadan tents...to know how much of food wastage is happening in tents,” said one official, who did not want to be ... «Khaleej Times, Jun 15»
3
Anti-food wastage campaign during Ramadan
“Usually food wastage happens when the amount of food that needs to be cooked is overestimated and this tends to happen a lot during invitations, particularly ... «gulfnews.com, Jun 15»
4
Outrage over food wastage in hotels
KUALA LUMPUR: It's barely a week into Ramadan but the Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia have already received 45 complaints of food wastage ... «The Star Online, Jun 15»
5
National soul searching needed over 270000 tonnes food wastage
To understand the magnitude of this wastage, Free Malaysia Today reports that the wasted food if arranged in piles, would be equivalent to that of 30 KLCC ... «The Malaysian Insider, Jun 15»
6
NGO moves Green Tribunal over wastage by RO purifiers
Highlighting the large amount of water being wasted by Reverse Osmosis (RO) purifiers which are found in almost every household in urban India, an NGO on ... «The Hindu, Apr 15»
7
PIL filed against wastage of milk
A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here seeking an enquiry into alleged wastage of around 100 litres of milk which ... «The Hindu, Feb 15»
8
Government Policy to Focus on Reducing Food Wastage
Government Policy to Focus on Reducing Food Wastage Our government is currently working on the National Food Processing Policy to reduce wastage of ... «NDTV, Oct 14»
9
World Environment Day 2015: 9 Ways to Avoid Food Wastage at …
A large part of this discussion is centered around food and food wastage. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization about 1.3 billion tonnes of food ... «NDTV, Oct 14»
10
Food inflation can be curbed by halting wastage: Harsimrat Kaur Badal
NEW DELHI: Strengthening of backward and forward linkages will help in controlling the food wastage, which is estimated at over Rs 40,000 crore, and also aid ... «Economic Times, Sep 14»

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