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lossage
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/los'@j/ , n. [very common] The result of a bug or malfunction. This is a
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mass or collective noun. What a loss! and What lossage! are nearly
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synonymous. The former is slightly more particular to the speaker's present
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circumstances; the latter implies a continuing lose of which the speaker is
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currently a victim. Thus (for example) a temporary hardware failure is a
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loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage.
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