attrition
Example Sentences
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They have stepped forward in this championship, but with each Irish try and each moment of Irish attrition you were reminded of the distance Scotland have left to travel.
From BBC
The streaming reversal was a big reason for layoffs that, combined with attrition, have shrunk Pixar from 1,500 employees to 1,100.
CFO Jay Stasz says the advertisement may have reminded consumers to cancel their memberships, and attrition rates have begun to decline with the messaging changes.
On the West Coast, the San Francisco Fed reported, some companies have been shrinking their payrolls either through layoffs or attrition.
This isn’t attrition warfare; it is succession denial.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.