a process of making somebody/something, especially your enemy, weaker by repeatedly attacking them or creating problems for them （尤指给敌人造成的）削弱，消耗 It was a war of attrition. 这是一场消耗战。 🔊🔊 These were the economics not of efficiency but of attrition. 这些不是效率而是损耗的经济学。
- (especially North American English) (British English usually natural wastage)
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
Word Originlate Middle English : from late Latin attritio(n-), from atterere ‘to rub’.