wastage
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The loss of materials through spoilage, scrap, or evaporation during production.
The standard cost built in a small allowance for wastage, but actual scrap ran well above it.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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