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Natural wastage

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Noun
  1. 1
    Decrease of workforce caused by non-replacement of retiring or voluntarily resigning employees and not by deliberate layoffs. British, uncountable

    "Of the total labour force now threatened with redundancy, of course, a proportion will be covered by natural wastage, so that the number eventually thrown out of railway work will be well below 19,000."

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