0 a reduction in the number of people who work for an organization that is achieved by not replacing those people who leave
1 a reduction in the number of people who work for an organization, which is achieved by not replacing those who leave:
In the past 12 months, the number of prison officers has been reduced by 2,200–800 through natural wastage, and 1,400 through voluntary redundancy.
Will he confirm that natural wastage will not be the only method of securing reductions in troop numbers?
We expect some 700 of these to be achieved by natural wastage.
However, there is a good deal of natural wastage and there have been big reductions over the last two decades.
It is likely that the numbers employed will be further reduced by the end of the year mainly by natural wastage.
This reduction in numbers will be spread over four years, and largely achieved by natural wastage.
The normal practice is to try to achieve this by natural wastage, and this has been achieved in most cases in the past.
One would have thought that it was possible to utilise methods of natural wastage.
