rate of attrition

1. 1.

   the rate of shrinkage in size or number

   Synonymsattrition rate

   Broaderrate

Questions about rate of attrition

What does rate of attrition mean?

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

What is another word for rate of attrition?

Close synonyms include attrition rate. 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 rate of attrition a common word?

rate of attrition 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.