Wearing or grinding down by friction. / The gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve productive use of the resource.

(transitive) To grind or wear down through friction. / (transitive) To reduce the number of (jobs or workers) by not hiring new employees to fill positions that become vacant (often with out).

Of or pertaining to attrition.

plural of attrition

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attrition

present participle of attrition

simple past tense and past participle of attrition

Causing attrition.

plural of attriter

One who, or that which, attrites. / (linguistics) One who has lost certain abilities in a language by learning and using a different language.