natural wastage
Britishnoun
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And there is always turnover, natural wastage as a human resources director might put it, at every election.
From BBC
Network Rail official Tim Shoveller said about 1,800 jobs were expected to be cut, but the "the vast majority" would be through "voluntary severance and natural wastage".
From BBC
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
When in the 1990s Prince Charles and palace advisers started the process of slimming down the royal family’s entourage and hangers-on, they could not have imagined that natural wastage rather than active culling would have reduced the inner core quite so suddenly and drastically.
From The Guardian
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
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