leakage

leakage
    n 1: the discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried
         to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had
         to clean up the leak" [syn: {escape}, {leak}, {leakage},
         {outflow}]
    

Leakage \Leak"age\, n. [Cf. D. lekkage, for sense 1.]
   1. A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by
      leaking.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Com.) An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the
      leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Elec.) A {leak[3]}; also; the quantity of electricity
      thus wasted.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

LEAKAGE. The waste which has taken place in liquids, by their escaping out 
of the casks or vessels in which they were kept. By the act of March 2, 
1799, s. 59, 1 Story's L. U. S, 625, it is provided that there be an 
allowance of two per cent for leakage, on the quantity which shall appear by 
the gauge to be contained in any cask of liquors, subject to duty by the 
gallon and ten per cent on all beer, ale, and porter, in bottles and five 
per cent on all other liquors in bottles; to be deducted, from the invoice 
quantity, in lieu of breakage or it shall be lawful to compute the duties on 
the actual quantity, to be ascertained by tale, at the option of the 
importer, to be made at the time of entry. 
    

78 Moby Thesaurus words for "leakage":
      ablation, access, admission, break, breakout, consumption,
      decrease, decrement, deliverance, delivery, depletion,
      depreciation, dissipation, distillation, drain, dribble, drip,
      dripping, drippings, drop, emergence, entrance, entree, entry,
      erosion, escape, escapism, evaporation, evasion, exhaustion,
      expenditure, extrication, flight, freeing, getaway, import,
      importation, importing, impoverishment, income, incoming,
      infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, input, insertion,
      insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression,
      intrusion, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leaking, liberation,
      outlet, penetration, percolation, prisonbreak, reception, release,
      rescue, riddance, seepage, setting-free, shrinkage, trickle, using,
      using up, vent, wastage, waste, wearing, wearing away