natural wastage
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And there is always turnover, natural wastage as a human resources director might put it, at every election.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2024
Major job reductions through natural wastage - waiting for people to resign or retire rather than enforcing redundancies - would take many years, Mr Penman warned.
From BBC • May 12, 2022
The ambition of Prince Charles and some advisers to slim down the working membership of the family to a smaller active core is being achieved by natural wastage, not design.
From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2019
In truth, British society moves on, not because it has been forced to by PC tsars, but because of natural wastage.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2011
It is doubly economical since it uses the human waste in collecting what would be the natural wastage of the city, and devotes each to the service of the other.
From Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" by Booth-Tucker, Commissioner
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