Shrinkage is valid Scrabble Word

Is shrinkage a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is shrinkage valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for SHRINKAGE in dictionary:

NOUN:

the amount by which something shrinks
the process, fact, or amount of shrinking
an allowance made for reduction in the takings of a business due to wastage or theft.
decrease in size, value, or weight
The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.
The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc.
Decrease in value; depreciation.
process or result of becoming less or smaller
the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the act or process of shrinking

Words related to SHRINKAGE

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Words that contain SHRINKAGE

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How to use SHRINKAGE in a sentence

The shrinkage in values in a few hours, of good and honest stocks, will come to twice as much as would pay for the Russo-Japanese war.
As in other Basohli paintings, trees are shown as small and summary symbols, the horizon is a streak of clouds and there is a deliberate shrinkage from physical refinement.
But since those times the planet has undergone a unique shrinkage.
Throughout the corn-producing district there has been proceeding a gradual shrinkage, as it were, of speculative investment.
The opening of crack spaces points to lateral shrinkage of the portions of chilled material they surround, and to some release from a state of involuntary tension.
A little cotton mixed with the wool is not objectionable, as it prevents so much of the shrinkage to which wool is liable.
I was accustomed to nice, simple jobs with my head, like figuring on the shrinkage of beef cattle, or the inner running of a two-card draw.
The gradual shrinkage of values to the vanishing point imposed upon Dave many business duties which he would very gladly have evaded.
Also the Report of an Expert as to possible Shrinkage of Assets.
The process of shrinkage and rise of temperature goes on so long as they remain in the state of a perfect gas.

The shrinkage caused by the drying will stretch the paper tightly over the framework.
Two weeks devoted to this loyal end strengthened the Bourbon lines perceptibly, but resulted in a shrinkage of four thousand francs in his own.
The shrinkage of the vital organs is like the shrinkage of capital and values.
Specific gravity, and shrinkage of 51 American woods XV.
Were it not for this property it would be impossible to dry wood without destroying completely its cohesion, due to the irregularity of shrinkage.
To convert this figure into actual density or specific gravity of the dry wood, it is necessary to know the amount of shrinkage in volume.
The more rapid drying of the ends causes local shrinkage, and were the material sufficiently plastic the ends would become bluntly tapering.
It is at once evident that this fact makes shrinkage more irregular, for wherever cells cross each other at a decided angle they will tend to pull apart upon drying.
Here is a son of mine whom I see reduced to making his living by a shrinkage in values.
With that competition, you know what your plant at Lapham would be worth, and what the shrinkage on your manufactured stock would be.
But here is a vast and awful catastrophe that befell from an act of Nature apparently no more extraordinary than the shrinkage of hot metal in the process of cooling.
A shrinkage of the earth, in the course of the incessant adjustment between the interior and the exterior, will take place by occasional little jumps at this particular centre.
The causes of shrinkage in population are the opposites of those which we have found to promote its increase.
Thus a shrinkage in the volume of money is the prolific source of bankruptcy and ruin.
The men of whom I have spoken are undoubtedly the first who are likely to be affected by a shrinkage in the volume of money.

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