attrition

Still, as the attrition rose, Scotland prospered, despite being a man down.

Even if not numerically significant, any infusion of manpower can count at a time when both sides are suffering attrition and scrambling to find recruits.

It's really a matter of attrition, as you might say, over the next few years until we finally push these regimes into some sort of shape or replace them.

They are now bogged down in the mud in what has become a battle of attrition.

Kaiser countered that its current attrition was under 10% and “well below the industry average.”