ATTRITION


Meaning of ATTRITION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

war of attrition

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

rate

That compares with an attrition rate of just over a quarter during Ronald Reagan's presidency.

It assumes a 5 percent annual attrition rate but that might be over-generous.

The 2. 05 percent attrition rate the agency had managed to maintain promised to go straight through the roof.

Their attrition rates generally are even higher than the rates at four-year institutions.

The faculty was undistinguished, teaching methods uninspired, and the attrition rate , of course, appalling.

The attrition rate was horrible, especially on the days that Nabers ordered strenuous exercise drills.

Siemens builds an attrition rate into its design and does not anticipate that all students will finish.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a war of attrition

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It assumes a 5 percent annual attrition rate but that might be over-generous.

One is to continue his war of attrition against parliament, albeit from a position of greater strength since the referendum.

Part of the attrition on my military reserves had been the expenses.

The 2. 05 percent attrition rate the agency had managed to maintain promised to go straight through the roof.

Their attrition rates generally are even higher than the rates at four-year institutions.

These are the economics, not of efficiency, but of attrition .

Worse was expected to come as industrial and domestic consumption of electricity picked up after the attrition of the war years.

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