What does wear and tear mean?

wear and tear means "decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use".

What is another word for wear and tear?

Close synonyms include depreciation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wear and tear a common word?

wear and tear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

wear and tear — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use
Synonymsdepreciation
Broaderfinancial loss non-cash expense
Narrowerstraight-line method write-off

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