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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.
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