单词	attrition
释义	attritionat‧tri‧tion /əˈtrɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINattrition Origin: 1400-1500 Latin attritio, from atterere ‘to rub against’, from ad- ‘to’ + terere ‘to rub’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a war of attrition EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS It assumes a 5 percent annual attrition rate but that might be over-generous. One is to continue his war of attrition against parliament, albeit from a position of greater strength since the referendum. Part of the attrition on my military reserves had been the expenses. The 2. 05 percent attrition rate the agency had managed to maintain promised to go straight through the roof. Their attrition rates generally are even higher than the rates at four-year institutions. These are the economics, not of efficiency, but of attrition. Worse was expected to come as industrial and domestic consumption of electricity picked up after the attrition of the war years. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► war of attrition  a war of attrition COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► rate · That compares with an attrition rate of just over a quarter during Ronald Reagan's presidency.· It assumes a 5 percent annual attrition rate but that might be over-generous.· The 2. 05 percent attrition rate the agency had managed to maintain promised to go straight through the roof.· Their attrition rates generally are even higher than the rates at four-year institutions.· The faculty was undistinguished, teaching methods uninspired, and the attrition rate, of course, appalling.· The attrition rate was horrible, especially on the days that Nabers ordered strenuous exercise drills.· Siemens builds an attrition rate into its design and does not anticipate that all students will finish. 1the process of gradually destroying your enemy or making them weak by attacking them continuously:  a war of attrition2especially American English when people leave a company or course of study and are not replaced:  Staff reductions could be achieved through attrition and early retirements.
随便看	unpardonable unpardonably unpatriotic unpaved UN peacekeeping force unpeeled unperturbed unpick unplaced unplanned unplayable unpleasant unpleasantly unpleasantness unplug unplugged unpopular unpopularity unprecedented unprecedentedly unpredictability unpredictable unpredictably unprepared unprepossessing

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