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natural wastage

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ˌnatural ˈwastage noun [uncountable]  BEa reduction in the number of people employed by an organization, which happens when people leave their jobs and the jobs are not given to anyone else 〔由退职引起的〕自然减员
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natural wastageThere is a natural wastage of at least five percent on any diet.Voluntary redundancies and natural wastage are expected instead of sackings.No, natural wastage, as they call it these days, took care of the decrease.He didn't mind the natural wastage, at all.Membership from now on will be by invitation only as existing places become available through natural wastage.Ten of the posts to go will disappear through natural wastage.For the Army we are talking about in excess of 10,000 redundancies and much of the other reductions will occur through natural wastage.
natural wastage formalnBritish EnglishBE a reduction in the number of workers because of people leaving, retiring etc and not because they have lost their jobs wastage
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natural wastageThere is a natural wastage of at least five percent on any diet.Voluntary redundancies and natural wastage are expected instead of sackings.No, natural wastage, as they call it these days, took care of the decrease.He didn't mind the natural wastage, at all.Membership from now on will be by invitation only as existing places become available through natural wastage.Ten of the posts to go will disappear through natural wastage.For the Army we are talking about in excess of 10,000 redundancies and much of the other reductions will occur through natural wastage.
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natural wastage

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++natural wastage  natural wastage at wastage(1) a reduction in the number of workers because of people leaving, retiring etc and not because they have lost their jobs


natural wastage
ˌnatural ˈwastage noun [uncountable]
a reduction in the number of people employed by an organization, which happens when people leave their jobs and the jobs are not given to anyone else


natural wastageBrE /ˌnætʃrəl ˈweɪstɪdʒ/ 🔊NAmE /ˌnætʃrəl ˈweɪstɪdʒ/ 🔊 (BrE) (also at·tri·tion NAmE, BrE ) noun [uncountable] the process of reducing the number of people who are employed by an organization by, for example, not replacing people who leave their jobs 自然减员