Antonyms for attrition
əˈtrɪʃ ənat·tri·tion

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1. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

2. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

3. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

4. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

5. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

6. attritionnoun

   Antonyms:
   accretion

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1. attrition

   Antonyms:
   impenitence, callousness, obduracy, reprobation, relentlessness

   Synonyms:
   sorrow, repentance, affliction, penitence, compunction, remorse, self-reproach

Matched Categories

1. • Decrease
   • Friction
   • Sorrow

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1. abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detritionnoun

   erosion by friction

   Synonyms:
   excoriation, corrasion, contriteness, rubbing, detrition, contrition, scratch, friction, abrasion, scrape, grinding

2. grinding, abrasion, attrition, detritionnoun

   the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice

   Synonyms:
   excoriation, corrasion, contriteness, rubbing, detrition, contrition, scratch, friction, abrasion, scrape, grinding

3. attrition, contrition, contritenessnoun

   sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation

   Synonyms:
   contriteness, abrasion, grinding, corrasion, contrition, detrition

4. attritionnoun

   a wearing down to weaken or destroy

   "a war of attrition"

   Synonyms:
   contriteness, abrasion, grinding, corrasion, contrition, detrition

5. attritionnoun

   the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction

   Synonyms:
   contriteness, abrasion, grinding, corrasion, contrition, detrition

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1. retention

   Submitted by acronimous on May 26, 2014  

How to use attrition in a sentence?

1. Phil Wagner:

   Attrition and costs associated with non-deployable warfighters are at an all-time high. With uncertainty and potential budget cuts possible, the DoD can no longer afford to ignore the costs of our non-deployable assets, congress has recognized this and has taken an important step to get ahead of it.

2. Another Chicago alderman:

   We've been saying this was coming for the last five or six years that I've been in office, the rate of attrition, we are not keeping up with it. They're not actively going out looking for more police officers to take this job. You actually have city council members pushing to defund the police department, take more money away from them, allocate it to other departments, we're pushing a boulder up the hill right now. And if we don't get all on the same team and we're not all working in the same direction, we're going to lose our city as quick as we can believe it.

3. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez:

   We believe the cost of implementing this rule is offset by the efficiencies that come with reduced attrition, increased loyalty, all of those things that have been documented in a number of studies of state laws that have been enacted.

4. Noah Bonsey:

   It's really indicative of some huge problems the regime has, what we're seeing now is the best evidence yet of a trend we've already known about: the regime's attrition rate is quite high and it can't replace the soldiers and militiamen that it loses with equally effective Syrian manpower.

5. Chief Executive Jes Staley:

   Investing substantially in this company was one of the first things I did upon being appointed - and my interests are firmly aligned with yours, however, I believe it is better to move quickly and decisively to eliminate the drag in this business now than to accept high levels of attrition on your returns for a much longer time than is necessary.

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