noun [U] (formal)
1 a process of making sb/sth, especially your enemy, weaker by repeatedly attacking them or creating problems for them:
It was a war of attrition. * These were the economics not of efficiency but of attrition.
2 (especially AmE) = NATURALWASTAGE
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