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lossage
/los'@j/ , n. [very common] The result of a bug or malfunction. This is a
mass or collective noun. What a loss! and What lossage! are nearly
synonymous. The former is slightly more particular to the speaker's present
circumstances; the latter implies a continuing lose of which the speaker is
currently a victim. Thus (for example) a temporary hardware failure is a
loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage.