See attrition in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "malkreskado"
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
"neuter"
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"code": "nl",
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"tags": [
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"sense": "reduction in membership or personnel",
"word": "malkreskado"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "reduction in membership or personnel",
"word": "poistuma"
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{
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"masculine"
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"tags": [
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"word": "felőrlés"
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{
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{
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{
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "消耗"
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"neuter"
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"neuter"
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"(sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment."
],
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "osipanje"
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{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "loss of participants during an experiment",
"tags": [
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"tags": [
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"roman": "iztǎrkvane",
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"word": "изтъркване"
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"sense": "wearing by friction",
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"masculine"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "hiertyminen"
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Verschleiß"
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{
"code": "de",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Abnutzung"
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"masculine"
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "wearing by friction",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "he",
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"word": "磨耗"
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"code": "la",
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"neuter"
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{
"code": "oc",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "abrasion"
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"code": "oc",
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"sense": "wearing by friction",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "atricion"
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"code": "pt",
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"neuter"
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"code": "sh",
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{
"code": "sv",
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"word": "utmattning"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "reduction in membership or personnel",
"word": "vrijwillig ontslag"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "reduction in membership or personnel",
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fr",
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{
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{
"code": "hu",
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"code": "ru",
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{
"code": "sh",
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{
"code": "sv",
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"etymology_text": "15th century, from Middle English attricion, attricioun, from Middle French attricion, attrition and its etymon, Latin attrītiō (“a rubbing against”), from the verb attrītus, past participle of atterō (“to wear”), from ad- (“to, towards”) + terō (“to rub”). By surface analysis, attrit + -ion.",
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"text": "attritioned teeth; attritioned rock",
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"ref": "1989, Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel, New York: Arcade, Book 9, p. 189:",
"text": "[…] He took her in his arms\nAnd kissed her long and wetly,\nTill, attritioned by her charms,\nHis will collapsed completely.",
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"To grind or wear down through friction."
],
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"grind"
],
[
"wear down",
"wear down"
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[
"friction",
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"(transitive) To grind or wear down through friction."
],
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"word": "attrit"
}
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"ref": "1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings, page 186:",
"text": "[…] but the heart of the health services in New York will have to attrition out some 3,000 to 5,000 jobs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Herbert S. White, “The Future of Library and Information Science Education”, in Librarians and the Awakening from Innocence,, Boston: G.K. Hall, page 86:",
"text": "[…] expenses can be cut, by attritioning faculty vacancies […]",
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}
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"To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out)."
],
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"(transitive) To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out)."
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"text": "The cohort of one hundred students had attritioned to sixty by the end of secondary school.",
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"To undergo a reduction in number."
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"(intransitive) To undergo a reduction in number."
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to grind or wear down through friction",
"word": "kuluttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to reduce jobs or workers by not hiring",
"word": "vähentää luonnollisen poistuman kautta"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to undergo a reduction in number",
"word": "vähentyä"
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"sense": "to undergo a reduction in number",
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}
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}
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