单词 | natural wastage |
释义 | > as lemmasnatural wastage natural wastage n. see wastage n. 1d. natural wastage d. (a) The loss of students through failure to complete a course of study or training; (b) the loss of employees by any means other than dismissal, esp. by retirement or resignation. Frequently as natural wastage. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > loss of employees wastage1919 society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > loss of students through failure to complete wastage1944 1919 M. Greenwood in Jrnl. Royal Stat. Soc. 82 187 Our industrial ‘death’ rate would then merely be the rate at which entrants to a trade pass out of it, or,..with a..narrower circle, the rates of departure from particular factories. In this sense, ‘death’ or wastage rates for different factories will be prima facie measures of the efficiencies of the respective factories. 1944 Min. of Fuel & Power Statistics Digest from 1938 6 in Parl. Papers 1943–4 (Cmd. 6538) VIII. 151 Net natural wastage... [Note] This is the gross natural wastage less the normal juvenile recruitment. 1948 Ann. Rep. Nat. Coal Board 1947 iv. 45 in Parl. Papers 1947–8 X. 387 The manpower target set for the Board..was.. 730,000 men... This meant a net increase..of 40,000..and, since wastage was estimated at 60/65,000 men over the year, a recruitment of 100,000 was needed. 1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After ix. 219 A modest claim..is made..that wastage among favourably-assessed parachutists proved smaller than among those unfavourably assessed. 1956 School Sci. Rev. June 375 The Rector of Imperial College, Dr. R. P. Linstead, in a lecture last October, said (speaking of what he called ‘academic wastage’), ‘This academic wastage makes itself shown in different universities, but in this College much of the wastage occurs during the first year.’ 1958 Technology May 66/2 The question of wastage in apprenticeship. 1963 Higher Educ.: Rep. Comm. under Ld. Robbins 20 in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2154) XI. 639 We discount all those who begin courses but do not successfully complete them. This is commonly described as ‘wastage’—a term that we adopt for reasons of conformity but that we regard as carrying misleading implications. Wastage rates in higher education have not varied much in recent years. 1975 Times 25 Nov. 1/3 Nursing staff..were liable to ‘natural wastage’. 1979 ‘J. le Carré’ Smiley's People (1980) v. 65 He resigned of his own accord.., part of the wastage rate that gets everyone so worried. 1983 Financial Times 23 Apr. i. 34 The savings which the bank is seeking will involve natural wastage, retraining, redeployment and some measure of redundancy. < as lemmas |
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