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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ This move is intended to stop the shrinkage in the banking industry. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is advisable to stiffen the fabric before cutting to shape when using the latter method to allow for any possible shrinkage ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In financial accounting, the term inventory shrinkage (sometimes truncated to shrink ) is the loss of products between point of manufacture or purchase from supplier and point of sale . The term shrink relates to the difference in the amount of margin or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1713, "act or fact of shrinking," from shrink (v.) + -age . Meaning "amount by which something has shrunk" is from 1862.
Usage examples of shrinkage.
In a few instances, there seemed to be significant shrinkage of metastatic melanoma and kidney cancer.
As you may know, shrinkage, or unaccounted-for inventory losstheft, in other words is one of the biggest enemies of profitability in the retail business.
The latter contains Nobel and Schoene elutriators, together with viscosimeters of the flow and the Coulomb and Clark electrical types, sieves, voluminometers, colorimeters, vernier shrinkage gauges, micrometers, microscopes, and the necessary balances.
Then, that fool, Vagn, could be seen checking inside his braies, discreetly, for any evidence of shrinkage.
One of the last of Aeolis's mayors had established the paeonin industry in an attempt to revitalize the little city, but when the heretics had silenced the shrines at the beginning of the war there had been a sudden shrinkage in the priesthood and a decline in trade of the pigment which dyed their robes.
It was as if, with her effective little entresol and her wide acquaintance, her activities, varieties, promiscuities, the duties and devotions that took ninetenths of her time and of which he got, guardedly, but the side-wind—it was as if she had shrunk to a secondary element and had consented to the shrinkage with the perfection of tact.
By the reduction of the heat of that part of the interior there will also be a shrinkage, which, in connection with the explosions, will cause the earth's solid crust to be thrown up in folds till whole continents appear.
He was grinning, a ventriloquist's dummy, cheek muscles tightened by shrinkage.