| 单词 | natural wastage |
| 释义 | natural wastagenatural wastage formal British EnglishBrEBE a reduction in the number of workers because of people leaving, retiring etc and not because they have lost their jobs 〔因离职、退休等引起的〕自然减员 Examples from the Corpus natural wastage• There is a natural wastage of at least five percent on any diet.• Voluntary redundancies and natural wastage are expected instead of sackings.• No, natural wastage, as they call it these days, took care of the decrease.• He didn't mind the natural wastage, at all.• Membership from now on will be by invitation only as existing places become available through natural wastage.• Ten of the posts to go will disappear through natural wastage.• For the Army we are talking about in excess of 10,000 redundancies and much of the other reductions will occur through natural wastage. → natural wastage at wastage(1) |
| 随便看 |
|
英汉双解词典包含283110条英汉词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。