attrition

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
2. isim The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
3. isim A gradual reduction in number.
4. isim A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through injury, incapacitation, retirement, resignation, or death.
5. isim The loss of participants during an experiment.
6. isim The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
7. isim Imperfect contrition or remorse.
8. fiil To grind or wear down through friction.

   “attritioned teeth; attritioned rock”

9. fiil To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).

   “[…] but the heart of the health services in New York will have to attrition out some 3,000 to 5,000 jobs.”

10. fiil To undergo a reduction in number.

    “The cohort of one hundred students had attritioned to sixty by the end of secondary school.”