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What does wastage mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
  2. (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.
  3. (countable) Anything lost by wear or waste.
  4. (uncountable) Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
  5. (hunting, countable) The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.
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The lack of management will cause disorder, confusion, wastage, delay, destruction and even depression.
Poorly maintained sprayers result in wastage of inputs and uneven control of pests, weeds and diseases.
Because the drugs mentioned above are far more expensive than bronchodilator solutions, wastage of drug in a nebulizer needs to be minimized.
Chicken are cut and skinned and the wastage is dumped into the nearby Corporation dustbin.
Farmers tell him that livestock graze the sward very tightly so there is no wastage.
He has informed us that there is a process, and not a rare one, of wastage or discharge of flawed fertilized ova.

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