Noun
A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.
An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. Mary Douglas
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. Daniel Goleman
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism. Greg Bear
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. Henry Rollins
Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget. Mary Roach
they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe Source: Internet