- 1a process of making someone or something, especially your enemy, weaker by repeatedly attacking them or creating problems for them It was a war of attrition. These were the economics not of efficiency but of attrition.
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- 2the process of reducing the number of people who are employed by an organization by, for example, not replacing people who leave their jobs
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