attritive 的定义
- a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength: Our club has had a high rate of attrition because so many members have moved away.
- a wearing down or weakening of resistance, especially as a result of continuous pressure or harassment: The enemy surrounded the town and conducted a war of attrition.
- a gradual reduction in workforce without firing or layoff of personnel, as when workers resign or retire and are not replaced.
- the act of rubbing against something; friction.
- a wearing down or away by friction; abrasion.
- Theology. imperfect contrition.See under contrition.
attritive 近义词
等同于 scratching
更多attritive例句
- Some of the performance in 2020 can be attributed to the injury bug and attrition that ravaged the offensive line, and the lack of spring practice and pandemic-affected fall camp couldn’t have helped.
- A permanent war of attrition will, in the long run, be hugely damaging for both sides.
- The brutality and attrition of cycling is, of course, what makes it so thrilling to follow, but it can also evoke the deadly days of Formula 1 in the 1960s and 1970s, which prompted drivers like Jackie Stewart to demand better safety precautions.
- Our attrition rate in all the countries that we operate is half of that of the national average.
- There is more reason to marvel, a welcome balance to a season-long deluge of attrition and fatigue.
- It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.
- But there is no consensus about what the attrition of ISIS looks like.
- The past two months have been a war of attrition between the Hong Kong government and pro-democracy protestors.
- Sen. Rand Paul has called for the “attrition if not an outright elimination of the IRS.”
- Following the attrition of heavy industry in the 1980s, the income gap across the United Kingdom has grown substantially.
- River sand is frequently used, but is not so good as pit sand on account of the particles being rubbed smooth by attrition.
- When arising from rough friction or attrition, they are more commonly called abrasions.
- How charming, how delightful, how inspiring is the eloquence which is kindled by the attrition of gifted minds!
- Anti-attrition, an′ti-at-trish′on, n. anything which counteracts attrition or friction—also figuratively.
- Neither of them had the slightest traces of gangue, or vein-matter, nor of attrition in being removed from the parent beds.