attrition

• However, I think the real benefit that Railo brings to the CFML world is in stemming some of the attrition which is natural in any language. —  Application Generation
• One of the positions was eliminated through attrition, and about 50 nurses remain, said Patrick Wallace, a spokesman for the school district. leaner $289 million fiscal 2010 budget in May but more cuts may be coming because the district learned it will get several million dollars less from the state than it had expected due to declining tax revenue. —  Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal
• Due to attrition, the Police Department is expected to be down by 30 officers, and the Fire Department will be down 16 by the end of the fiscal year.
• General Grant seems to have understood this, and to have resolutely adopted the programme of "attrition"--coldly estimating that, even if he lost ten men to General Lee's one, he could better endure that loss, and could afford it, if thereby he "crushed the rebellion The military theory of the Federal commander having thus been set forth in his own words, it remains to notice his programme for the approaching campaign. —  A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
• Unfortunately for them, the attrition is all on their side. —  Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!

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