Attrition
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:9 ptsWWF:10 pts9 letters
Definition of Attrition
Noun
- Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
- The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
- A gradual reduction in number.
- A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through injury, incapacitation, retirement, resignation, or death.
- The loss of participants during an experiment.
Verb
- To grind or wear down through friction.
"attritioned teeth; attritioned rock"
- To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).
- To undergo a reduction in number.
"The cohort of one hundred students had attritioned to sixty by the end of secondary school."
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