noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
natural wastage
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
natural
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For the Army we are talking about in excess of 10,000 redundancies and much of the other reductions will occur through natural wastage .
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There is a natural wastage of at least five percent on any diet.
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Voluntary redundancies and natural wastage are expected instead of sackings.
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He didn't mind the natural wastage , at all.
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Membership from now on will be by invitation only as existing places become available through natural wastage .
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Ten of the posts to go will disappear through natural wastage .
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No, natural wastage , as they call it these days, took care of the decrease.
■ NOUN
rate
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The mean wastage rate therefore is 37.5 %, which gives us a figure for last year of 375m untouched desserts.
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He analysed these results in terms of output, wastage rates , labour turnover and absenteeism.
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What is needed is the urgent introduction of single tier training schemes of shortened duration with wastage rates of around 10%.
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The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, there was a lot of wastage in every area of our lives.
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Count part tiles as whole ones, then add an extra 5% to allow for wastage .
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For the Army we are talking about in excess of 10,000 redundancies and much of the other reductions will occur through natural wastage .
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The mean wastage rate therefore is 37.5 %, which gives us a figure for last year of 375m untouched desserts.