drainage

drain +‎ -age

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪnəd͡ʒ/

drainage (countable and uncountable, plural drainages)

1. A natural or artificial means for the removal of fluids from a given area by its draining away.
   • 2023 June 14, Philip Haigh, “Landslips: NR strives to turn back the tide”, in RAIL, number 985, page 35:

     It should move NR away from previous examples of repairs that have treated the symptoms (fixing the landslip) but not fixed the underlying cause (poor drainage), with the result that a second slip followed.

2. A system of drains.
3. A downward wind.
   • 1960, N. P. Rusin, “The Radiation Balance of the Snow Surface of Antarctica”, in OG Krichak, editor, Scientific Conference on Problems of Meteorology of the Antarctic (Abstracts of Reports)(USSR)., page 29:

     In the forward part of the cyclone, drainage katabasis is checked; but its highest intensity is observed in the rear part of the cyclone.

• areading, gardenia

From English drainage. By surface analysis, drainer +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /dʁɛ.naʒ/, /dʁe.naʒ/

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drainage m (plural drainages)

1. drainage

• → German: Dränage
• → Swedish: dränage

• “drainage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• daignera, grenadai