: the quantity that spills: material lost or scattered by spilling
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The design of this travel mug helps prevent spillage.
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The fridge then lowers the dispenser nozzle to fit your glass size (so there’s no spillage) and fills it up for you.—Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Embrace the spillage of slop into the physical world.—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025 The spillage increased the acidity of a local river to a level strong enough to dissolve human bones, in what may be one of the mining industry’s worst catastrophes globally.—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 14 Aug. 2025 Open spillage bottle of opioid pain killing tablets.—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spillage
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