Other forms: leakages
Leakage is liquid or gas escaping, and the amount that does. Water leakage, leakage from the pipe, reduce leakage.
In the water industry it is a measured and reported figure, and a startling share of what is pumped never reaches a tap. In economics and in politics, leakage means something escaping a system it was meant to stay in, including information.
1nounleakageLiquid or gas escaping, and the amount that does.
“Engineers found a leakage of gas from a cracked pipe under the street.”
leakage is an escape.
Proto-Indo-European
*leg- — to leak
Proto-Germanic
*lekaną — to leak, drain
Old Norse
leka — to leak, drip
Middle Dutch
leken — to leak, drip
Old English
*lecan — to leak
Middle English
leken — to let water in or out
English
leak
English, today
leakage
From leak + -age. leak comes from Middle English leken (“to let water in or out”), from Old English lecan (“to leak”), Middle Dutch leken (“to leak, drip”) or Old Norse leka (“to leak, drip”); all from Proto-Germanic lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European leg- (“to leak”). Cognate with Dutch lekken (“to leak”), German lechen, lecken (“to leak”), Danish lække (“to leak”), Swedish läcka (“to leak”), Norwegian Bokmål lekke (“to leak”), Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk leka (“to leak”). Related also to Old English leċċan (“to water, wet”), Albanian lag, lak (“to damp, make wet”). See also leach, lake. divulgation, disclosure of information Compare typologically изтичане, przeciek, уте́чка (akin to течь).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA