attrition rate

1. 1.

   the rate of shrinkage in size or number

   Synonymsrate of attrition

   Broaderrate

Questions about attrition rate

What does attrition rate mean?

attrition rate means "the rate of shrinkage in size or number".

What is another word for attrition rate?

Close synonyms include rate of attrition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is attrition rate a common word?

attrition rate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.