English Dictionary

attrition

/əˈtɹɪʃən/

verb

(transitive) To grind or wear down through friction. / (transitive) To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).

The company is experiencing high attrition rates.

意味（1）

(transitive) To grind or wear down through friction.

attritioned teeth; attritioned rock

意味（2）

(transitive) 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.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To undergo a reduction in number.

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