Usually means: Reduction in size or quantity.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word shrinkage:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shrinkage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shrinkage: Merriam-Webster
  3. shrinkage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shrinkage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shrinkage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shrinkage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shrinkage, shrinkage: Wordnik
  8. shrinkage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shrinkage: Wiktionary
  10. shrinkage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shrinkage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shrinkage: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shrinkage: Dictionary.com
  14. shrinkage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shrinkage (accounting), Shrinkage (casting), Shrinkage (disambiguation), Shrinkage (fabric), Shrinkage (slang), Shrinkage (statistics), Shrinkage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shrinkage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shrinkage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shrinkage: Rhymezone
  19. Shrinkage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shrinkage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SHRINKAGE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. shrinkage: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shrinkage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shrinkage: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  2. Shrinkage: Seinfeld Dictionary
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. shrinkage: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. SHRINKAGE: Accounting Glossary
  5. Shrinkage: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Shrinkage: Moneyterms
  8. Shrinkage: Management Dictionary
  9. Shrinkage: Investopedia
  10. Shrinkage: Energy Dictionary
  11. shrinkage: Legal dictionary
  12. Shrinkage: Financial dictionary
  13. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrinkage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrinkage: Medical dictionary

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Shrinkage: Building pathology glossary
  4. Shrinkage: Dictionary of Candlemaking Terms
  5. Shrinkage: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering
  6. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  7. Explosives (No longer online)
  8. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  9. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  10. shrinkage: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
noun:  The loss of merchandise through theft, spoilage, and obsolescence.
noun:  (slang) The reduction in size of the male genitalia when cold, such as from immersion in cold water.

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