attrition

Attrition may refer to the gradual reduction of the size of a workforce by not replacing personnel lost through retirement or resignation

• Attrition warfare, the military strategy of wearing down the enemy by continual losses in personnel and matériel
• Loss of personnel by Withdrawal (military)
• Attrition (medicine, epidemiology), the loss of participants during an experiment
• Attrition (dental), the loss of tooth structure by mechanical forces from opposing teeth
• Attrition (erosion), the wearing away of rocks in the sea
• Imperfect contrition, also known as attrition, in Catholic theology
• Customer attrition, loss of business clients or customers
• Language attrition, the loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language by either a community or an individual
• War of Attrition, a limited war fought between Egypt and Israel from 1968 to 1970
• Employees leaving a company to join somewhere else

Attrition (lat. attritio - Abreibung) bedeutet:

• eine Form der Abrasion (Zahnmedizin)
• der Name einer britischen Musikformation, siehe Attrition (Band)
• die langsame Erosion der eigenen Sprache, siehe Bilingualismus oder Sprachwechsel (Linguistik)

L'attrition est la perte de clientèle, de substance ou d'autres éléments non forcément matériels. C'est l'inverse de la rétention.

Gli Attrition sono un gruppo musicale inglese, fondato a Coventry nel 1980 da Martin Bowes e Ashley Niblock.

Attrition är ett brittiskt band inom elektronisk musik, bildat av Martin Bowes och Julia Niblock 1980.