Difference between Leak and Leakage

What is the difference between Leak and Leakage?

Leak as a noun is a crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. while Leakage as a noun is an act of leaking, or something that leaks

Leak

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture. The person through whom information, especially secret information, escapes.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To allow fluid to escape or enter something that should be sealed. To reveal secret information.

Example sentence: Obviously I'm not prone to leak secrets left, right and centre.

Leakage

Part of speech: noun

Definition: an act of leaking, or something that leaksthe amount lost due to a leakan undesirable flow of electric current through insulationloss of retail stock, especially due to theft

We hope you now know whether to use Leak or Leakage in your sentence.

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