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Attrition

Noun

Definiciones

1.NounGrinding down or wearing away by friction.
2.NounThe wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
3.NounA gradual reduction in number.
4.NounA gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through injury, incapacitation, retirement, resignation, or death.
5.NounThe loss of participants during an experiment.
6.NounThe loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
7.NounImperfect contrition or remorse.
8.VerbTo grind or wear down through friction.
"attritioned teeth; attritioned rock"
9.VerbTo reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).
10.VerbTo undergo a reduction in number.
"The cohort of one hundred students had attritioned to sixty by the end of secondary school."
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