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be attrition
noun
Wearing or grinding down by friction.
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"When we announced the elimination of non-core programs and personnel [in 2012], we forecasted that there would be attrition in certain member categories," Stephanie Craig, senior vice president for communications at TechAmerica, wrote in an email.
There will nonetheless be attrition due to the failure to return the annual questionnaire.
Acknowledging there may be attrition at the follow-up, the missing values for the non-respondents will be recorded using their baseline scores.
Teachers were responsible to making it possible for the students to answer during school-time as they provided the link to the web-based questionnaire and the id-codes to each student, so if they missed one data collection the consequence could be attrition of a whole school-class.
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The big problem was attrition, turnover.
"This is attrition and nothing else," said one.
It has been attrition of the least insecure.
The intent, according to the State Legislature, is "attrition through enforcement".
A third problem caused by high fees is attrition.
"What will happen next is attrition, in that care homes will begin going to the wall.
The strategy now was "attrition": kill as many of the enemy as possible.
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