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We found 44 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word attrition:
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General dictionaries General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. attrition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. attrition: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. attrition: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. attrition: Wordnik [home, info]
  5. attrition: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Attrition: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. attrition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. attrition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. attrition: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. attrition: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. attrition: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. attrition: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. attrition: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. Attrition (band), Attrition (dental), Attrition (weathering), Attrition (website), Attrition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Attrition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. attrition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. attrition: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. Attrition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. attrition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. attrition: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  21. Attrition: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  22. attrition: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  23. attrition: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  24. attrition: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. attrition: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. attrition: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. attrition: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Attrition: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. ATTRITION: Accounting Glossary [home, info]
  3. Attrition: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics [home, info]
  4. Attrition: Management Dictionary [home, info]
  5. Attrition: Glossary of Media Terms [home, info]
  6. Attrition: Investopedia [home, info]
  7. Attrition: Taxopedia [home, info]
  8. attrition: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  9. Attrition: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary [home, info]
  10. attrition: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attrition: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. attrition: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. attrition: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. attrition: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Attrition: Catholic Encyclopedia [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Attrition: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. ATTRITION: Power Engineering [home, info]

Quick definitions (attrition)

noun:  the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
noun:  a wearing down to weaken or destroy ("A war of attrition")
noun:  sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
noun:  erosion by friction
noun:  the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice

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Phrases that include attrition:   dental attrition, war of attrition, attrition mill, attrition minefield, attrition sweeping, more...

Words similar to attrition:   abrasion, attritional, contriteness, contrition, corrasion, detrition, grinding, more...


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