attrition
Example Sentences
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Wells Fargo will continue to retrain its workforce and use “attrition as our friend,” he said, but change is clear.
The department, like other agencies across the nation, has struggled to keep pace with attrition, and these hiring difficulties come as the 2026 World Cup and Olympic Games loom as massive security challenges.
From Los Angeles Times
That, and worker attrition, means his staff is down to six people from 10 last year.
“Departures to a single overseas employer make up only a very small fraction of normal attrition,” the FAA spokeswoman said.
Today the dictionary disputes seem to have largely fizzled out, the pitched battles over lexicography having succumbed to a weary war of consumerist attrition.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.