Usually means: Deterioration from ordinary use overtime.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word wear and tear:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. wear and tear: Merriam-Webster
  2. wear and tear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. wear and tear: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wear and tear: Vocabulary.com
  5. wear and tear: Wordnik
  6. wear and tear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. wear-and-tear, wear and tear: Wiktionary
  8. wear and tear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. wear and tear: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. wear-and-tear, wear and tear: Dictionary.com
  11. Wear and tear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. wear and tear: Rhymezone
  13. wear and tear: FreeDictionary.org
  14. wear and tear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. wear and tear: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. WEAR AND TEAR: Accounting Glossary
  4. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  5. wear and tear: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  7. wear and tear: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wear and tear: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wear and tear: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See wear_and_tears as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (wear and tear)

noun:  Damage or depreciation resulting from ordinary use (normally as something excluded from a guarantee or warranty of quality, or as justifying a write-down in a set of accounts).

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