attrition

yıpranma, kademeli azalma

İnsanların ayrılması veya kaynakların tükenmesiyle sayı ya da gücün yavaş yavaş azalması.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A gradual fall in numbers or strength as people leave or resources are used up.

• Staff attrition has increased this year.
• The team lost members through attrition.
• Years of fighting became a war of attrition.

Eş anlamlılar: gradual loss, depletion

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: staff attrition, attrition rate, war of attrition

aşındırmak

Bir şeyi sürterek veya öğüterek aşındırmak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To wear something down by rubbing or grinding it.

• Repeated contact can attrition the surface.
• The grinding process attritioned the rock into smaller particles.
• Constant rubbing had attritioned the edges of the sample.

Eş anlamlılar: wear down, abrade

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: attrition the rock, attrition a surface, attrition the teeth

sayısı azalmak

Üyelerin ayrılması veya kaybedilmesiyle sayıca küçülmek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To become smaller in number as members leave or are lost.

• The group began to attrition after the first month.
• The original cohort attritioned to forty participants.
• Student numbers had attritioned steadily throughout the course.

Nasıl kullanılır: attrition to a number (The group attritioned to twenty members by December.)

Eş anlamlılar: dwindle, decrease

Zıt anlamlılar: increase, grow

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: attrition to something, attrition over time, attrition gradually