Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An act of leaking, or something that leaks.

    water leakage

    data leakage

    Leck

    течьtečʹ, уте́чкаutéčka

    те́чаtéča, ви́тікvýtik

  2. (countable, uncountable)The amount lost due to a leak.

  3. (countable, uncountable)An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The loss of revenue generated by tourism to the economies of other countries.

More definitions
  • the discharge of a fluid from some container

Examples

2 sentences
  1. There has been some leakage behind the bathtub.

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  2. It is difficult to determine the state and safety of the radiation leakage.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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act of leaking:

Forms

plural: leakages
Singularleakage
Pluralleakages

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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