Preposition: of

• neuron: Normally, significant attrition of motor neurons does not occur until a person reaches the age of 60 years or more.

Converse of object

• suffer: Others will suffer the steady attrition of chronic health problems that diminish the quality of their life for much of their old age.

• reduce: How can you reduce staff attrition sufficiently to enable you to redirect resources to other types of training?

• minimize: Hayes ( 1996 ) summarized what was known about key strategies for minimizing student attrition from courses for adults.

• inflict: Hard kill means will damage or destroy the target system, and are thus a means of inflicting attrition.

Adjective modifier

• natural: About a third of the jobs will be lost through natural attrition.

• high: A center with high attrition will constantly be hiring new recruits, whatever performance gains are put in place.

• low: There is very low attrition, with only two people failing to complete the program over the last 25 years.

• increased: She concluded that poor supervision may be directly linked to increased student attrition from some child branch courses.

• gradual: The long-term effects of gradual change can be more damaging than short-term developments, but places are very rarely protected from gradual attrition.

Modifies a noun

• rate: There is a 3.8 % attrition rate for staff.

• statistic: Staff use exit interviews with students, along with the attrition statistics, to inform future decisions on interviewing and student admission criteria.

• level: These actions are beginning to produce evidence of reduced attrition levels.

• datum: Detailed attrition data are understood by staff and specific measures are taken consistently to reduce attrition rate.

Noun used with modifier

• cent: The argument about the famous 3 per cent attrition rate is also rather spurious.

• sample: It is clear that sample attrition has reduced the number of cases available for longitudinal analysis. [ Link to Doc Pan on Attrition ] .

• student: Keywords: student retention, student attrition, student support, parents, prospectus.

• staff: Excessive staff attrition is not a problem in India.

• customer: Cost to your company: Lower productivity, higher costs, customer attrition, lost opportunities.

• language: Pennsylvania German in West Virginia: language variation and language attrition.