attrition rate
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6.0
- noun
- /əˈtrɪʃən reɪt/
- Specialized
:
tasa de desgaste
- After analyzing the data, they discovered that the attrition rate for students in the program had risen significantly over the last year.
- high attrition rate
- low attrition rate
- student attrition rate
It's, it's one of the hardest courses to pass with one of the highest attrition rates of people who go on the course and then fail it.
- It's, it's one of the hardest courses to pass with one of the highest attrition rates of people who go on the course and then fail it.
- And so that's why you get this massive attrition rate with guys that are studs.
- They've demoralized all of the units and, and, and the attrition rate.
Examples
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If new teachers can develop positive relationships within the community, attrition rates will decrease.
Academic text (2003) -
The disparity in attrition rates is even higher among beginning teachers.
Academic text (2013) -
It's just a matter of what the attrition rate will be.
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Other studies have identified higher attrition rates at larger firms.
Academic text (2005) -
For female lawyers and lawyers of color, attrition rates are even higher.
Academic text (2001) -
An early entrance program for gifted females reported an attrition rate of 30% in the first year of the program.
Academic text (1995) -
The rate at which teachers leave their profession far exceeds the attrition rate in private industry.
Academic text (2003) -
The NALP study puts the associate attrition rate at 60 percent.
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The highest attrition rates generally occurred at firms with between 251 and 500 attorneys.
Academic text (2005) -
The overall student attrition rate during the 2 years of the WebIT-1 cohort was 56%.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
40
4.2
The rate at which employees leave and are replaced in a company
5
4.0
How quickly workers leave a company and new workers replace them
3
5.1
The rate at which people stop using a product or service
1
3.3
How quickly workers leave a company and new ones replace them
1
6.7
How quickly the size of a group becomes smaller over time
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents contribute directly: 'attrition' denotes a gradual loss or decrease and 'rate' denotes an amount or speed per unit time, so 'attrition rate' straightforwardly means the speed/amount of that loss. This follows a common 'X rate' compositional pattern found across languages and standard English nominal compounding, making the meaning predictable for learners who know both words.
Etymology
Attrition rate comes from an old image of things slowly wearing away; attrition means a slow rubbing or wearing down and rate means how fast that happens. So the phrase makes you picture a group losing members bit by bit, and that's why it means 'the speed at which people leave'.