Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
⚡ Service stoppage 💧 Amount lost
outage

outage

3 6.7
The loss of a fluid like oil or gas during storage
  • noun
  • /ˈaʊtɪdʒ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : merma
  • Some of you might have heard about (or have been affected by) the GoDaddy.com outage this week.
  • a power outage

Examples

  • Q: Will the Red Cross replace groceries or food lost because of a power outage?

    Blog text (13)

  • The largest outage clusters will be repaired first, then the smaller ones.

    Blog text (13)

  • The issue with National Grid's outage map, though, is that it's not entirely accurate.

    Blog text (31)

  • Several plants in the region are already out of service for regularly scheduled refueling and maintenance outages.

    Blog text (19)

  • The latter will grind transportation to a halt, and food outages will be prevalent, especially in major cities.

    Blog text (29)

  • Con Ed reported more than 1,000 outages across Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.

    Blog text (7)

  • After a 43-hour outage (4 PM CET 24.09.11 till 11 AM CET 26.09.11), our services are up and running again.

    Blog text (15)

  • The region experienced a severe outage of natural gas during the winter storm, leaving many homes without heating.

  • Following the pipeline failure, the outage of fuel supplies led to shortages across several states.

  • During the recent rainstorm, there was a significant outage of water services, disrupting daily activities for residents.

Antonyms

gain
  • Specialized
559 2.3

An advantage that gives you more money or success

addition
293 1.4

The act of putting one thing with another

Compounds

power outage
  • US
53 3.0

A time when the electricity goes off

How Much

wastage
  • UK
2 5.2
loss
247 1.3
shrinkage
5 5.1
outage
  • Specialized
3 6.7
spillage
3 3.7
leakage
15 3.1

Surface Forms

outage singular
outages plural

Morphology

outage = (opaque) = out + age

This sense is a specialized technical usage referring to quantity lost during storage/transportation and is not obviously derived from 'out' + '-age' for an average learner. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Outage comes from out and the ending -age, which means 'the result of being out'. Think of liquid slowly going 'out' of a barrel — the outage is the amount that went 'out' or was lost.