natural wastage
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natural wastage
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Decrease of workforce caused by non-replacement of retiring or voluntarily resigning employees and not by deliberate layoffs.
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.
Similar: attrition
Opposite: redundancy
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noun
Opposite: redundancy
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title = {natural wastage},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
