WordNet
n. the rate of shrinkage in size or number [syn: rate of attrition]
Usage examples of "attrition rate".
DiGeorge could not remember a time since the Maranzano-Genovese wars of the thirties when there had been such a high attrition rate within a Cosa Nostra family.
The attrition rate had been terrible on both sides, for Ancar had been perfectly willing to conscript anything and anyone and throw his conscripted troops into the front lines under magical coercions to fight.
The loss of sixteen nuclear attack submarines was an attrition rate of over fifty percent, and was one the United States could not afford.
Too low and your attrition rate can suffer or you may fail the objective by not moving fast enough.
He was thinking-measuring distances, gauging relative speeds, forecasting the Warward's attrition rate.
Colonists expected casualties while they subdued this planet, but the latest attrition rate went beyond the tolerable.
Reach the Coast every time, zero attrition rate, not a scratch on them.
As Goose listened to the frantic radio chatter, he realized the attrition rate among the Marine wing was fierce.
Not at the top this time, but in a class that boasted a seventy percent attrition rate, just finishing the damn thing in one piece was impressive.
But we always need skilled assassins, as their attrition rate is high.
Since it took nearly twenty years from his conception to produce a battle-ready Killer, the replacement rate was, for all practical purposes, negligible, and the twenty thousand or so Killers that Moro had left would soon become outnumbered by the People's Army if the attrition rate continued at the present level.