1.
[syn: escape, leak, leakage, outflow]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Leakage \Leak"age\, n. [Cf. D. lekkage, for sense 1.]
1. A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by
leaking.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Com.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the
leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Elec.) A leak[3]; also; the quantity of electricity
thus wasted.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
leakage
n 1: the discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried
to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had
to clean up the leak" [syn: escape, leak, leakage,
outflow]