breakage

IPA: brˈeɪkɪdʒ

The act of breaking.
Something that has been broken.
(accounting) A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.

Examples of "breakage" in Sentences

No matter what, breakage is not acceptable, not like this.
The reason they came up with the word breakage is that the gift card system was more than a little bit broken.
I almost always decide to live with it, because breakage is too painful, and you also lose the trust of the people you want to work with.
He also said that gloves minimise skin breakage and unsightly blood & bruising, but do nothing to reduce the impact on the punchees brain.
This policy of creating "breakage" - a situation where people give up instead of completing a read, a form, or a complaint - is common in many consumer situations.
The unspent money -- which the gift card industry calls "breakage" -- sits in an escrow account until the issuer, often a retail giant, decides to recognize it as revenue.
Wednesday afternoon was fun, spent it wandering around with the delicious Tiki and the shameless Danny … there were propositions and comments about helmuts and hiding and and I think blocked the other comments he made due to brain breakage …