attrition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: dentistry
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
medicine
religion
sciences
theology
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: attritions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: attritions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: attritioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: attritioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: attritioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Grinding down or wearing away by friction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gradual reduction in number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Recent years have seen […] more and more blatant reversals of previous Supreme Court decisions in favor of the constitutional rights of minorities. These increasingly conservative decisions, and constant attrition of individuals' rights, have directly paralleled the alarming increase of convictions in our courts.
But the rise of multiracialism is not all Kumbaya choruses and “postracial” identity. The N.A.A.C.P. criticized the census change, fearing that since so few in the black community are of fully African descent, mass attrition to a mixed-race option could threaten political clout and Federal financing.
gloss: A gradual reduction in number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gradual reduction in number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gradual reduction in number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Imperfect contrition or remorse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To grind or wear down through friction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: attritioned teeth; attritioned rock
[…] He took her in his arms
And kissed her long and wetly,
Till, attritioned by her charms,
His will collapsed completely.
gloss: To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] but the heart of the health services in New York will have to attrition out some 3,000 to 5,000 jobs.
[…] expenses can be cut, by attritioning faculty vacancies […]
gloss: To undergo a reduction in number.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The cohort of one hundred students had attritioned to sixty by the end of secondary school.
Related words: contrition
Derived words: antiattrition
attrit
attrite
attritional
attritionary
attrition bias
attrition damage
attrition warfare
attritive
interattrition
war of attrition
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изтъркване
roman: iztǎrkvane
lang: Bulgarian
word: изтриване
roman: iztrivane
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 磨損 /磨损
roman: mósǔn
lang: Dutch
word: slijtage
lang: Dutch
word: sleet
lang: Esperanto
word: forfrotiĝo
lang: Finnish
word: kuluminen
lang: Finnish
word: hiertyminen
lang: French
word: usure
lang: German
word: Verschleiß
lang: German
word: Abnutzung
lang: German
word: Abrieb
lang: German
word: Zermürbung
lang: German
word: Abreibung
lang: German
word: Abschürfung
lang: Greek
word: τριβή
roman: triví
lang: Hebrew
word: שחיקה
roman: shkhika
lang: Hungarian
word: kopás
lang: Hungarian
word: felőrlődés
lang: Hungarian
word: felmorzsolódás
lang: Japanese
word: 磨耗
roman: mamō
lang: Latin
word: attrītiō
lang: Macedonian
word: три́ење
roman: tríenje
lang: Occitan
word: abrasion
lang: Occitan
word: atricion
lang: Portuguese
word: atrito
lang: Russian
word: истира́ние
roman: istiránije
lang: Russian
word: стира́ние
roman: stiránije
lang: Russian
word: тре́ние
roman: trénije
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: istiranje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: habanje
lang: Spanish
word: abrasión
lang: Swedish
word: nötning
lang: Swedish
word: förslitning
lang: Turkish
word: yıpratma
lang: Finnish
word: väheneminen
lang: Finnish
word: hupeneminen
lang: Finnish
word: rapautuminen
lang: Finnish
word: hävikki
lang: Occitan
word: atricion
lang: Occitan
word: ameniment
lang: Occitan
word: amermament