名詞 wastage:

1. the process of wasting
2. anything lost by wear or waste

1. The company is hoping to avoid redundancy and reduce its staff by natural wastage.
   公司不希望裁減職工而希望通過正常的減員來減少其職工。
2. The retailer has to absorb the cost of wastage.
   零售商須承受耗損的費用。
3. You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
   在運輸中要允許有百分之五的損耗量。

wast.age

n.（名詞）
Loss by deterioration, wear, or destruction:
損耗：由于腐敗、磨損或破壞導(dǎo)致的消耗：
例句：
.Disease and desertion still caused much greater wastage than battle.(Theodore Ropp)
.疾病和荒蕪仍舊導(dǎo)致了比戰(zhàn)爭多得多的浪費.(西奧多·羅普)

The gradual process of wasting.
耗費：浪費的漸進(jìn)過程
An amount that is wasted or lost by wear.
損耗：由于磨損而浪費或損失的量