attrition

attrition[ə'triʃən]

• n.
  • 摩擦
  • 磨损，消磨
  • (尤指军事上的)消耗，损耗(尤指到了筋疲力尽的地步)，削弱
  • (由于退休、辞职、死亡等而造成的)人员自然缩减，人员损耗，缩减人员，缩员，减员[亦作natural wastage]
  • 【神学】(因羞愧或怕受惩罚而作的)忏悔，不彻底的忏悔(区别于 contrition)
  • 【地质学】磨耗作用
• vt.
  • 耗减，耗损
  • (使员工、职位等)自然缩减，减(员)(out)

• lichenometric
• pit sawing
• figurest
• the passing of time / the years
• ult
• brutishnesses
• dognapping
• eternization
• of one's own will
• venery
• pacified
• drainage area
• hepatitis delta virus
• morales
• Eunotiaceae
• slybootss
• hypocreaceaes
• Joy extensible conveyor
• make the land
• nouveau
• outwash drift
• atomarium
• Moringaceae
• Deo volente
• suspended sentences
• auditorship
• sects
• envenomed words
• sepulchre
• teleoperators
• cut the corner
• wild and woolly
• remonetises
• MADT
• pride of place
• physical anthropologist
• affection
• AAPG
• storm microseism
• ginger family
• emphasizings
• four-eyed
• three blue beans in a(或one)blue bladder
• chymists
• static errors
• no holds barred
• in days to come
• have a lot on
• gripsacks
• off your trolley
• compliment sb into
• even day
• wholists
• lactometer
• astrograph
• saf.
• purulences
• saving your presence
• heat tinting
• audiphone
• muticate
• playscript
• red rust
• air defenses
• quill-coverts
• lineariser
• fruitier
• terminative
• channeling
• L
• ultracentrifuged
• a warm reception
• rush ... out
• negative booster
• knowing hat
• snout
• keep for
• avouch for
• pump sth / sb ↔ up
• tupiks
• double overhead camshaft
• to size
• and it's a big if
• gnomologist
• pranker
• commuter airline
• pains and penalties
• chemical potential
• serve as
• be top dog
• diffident about
• standard trajectory
• holometaboly
• tape machine
• spring bearings
• entangled
• Bok globules
• save one's breath
• aerenchyma
• brushturkeys