| 单词 | wastage |
| 释义 | Word family noun wastage waste wastefulness waster wastrel adjective waste wasteful wasted wasting verb waste adverb wastefully wast·age /ˈweɪstɪdʒ/ noun [uncountable] formal 1 when something is lost or destroyed, especially in a way that is not useful or reasonable, or the amount that is lost or destroyed 浪费；耗费(量)，损耗(量) The system used to result in a great deal of food wastage. 这种做法过去造成了大量的食物浪费。wastage of wastage of ability among working class children 工人阶级子女中才能的浪费现象2. natural wastage formal British EnglishBE a reduction in the number of workers because of people leaving, retiring etc and not because they have lost their jobs 〔因离职、退休等引起的〕自然减员Examples from the Corpuswastage• Count part tiles as whole ones, then add an extra 5% to allow for wastage.• The mean wastage rate therefore is 37.5 %, which gives us a figure for last year of 375m untouched desserts.• For the Army we are talking about in excess of 10,000 redundancies and much of the other reductions will occur through natural wastage.• As a result, there was a lot of wastage in every area of our lives.From Longman Business Dictionarywastagewast‧age /ˈweɪstɪdʒ/ noun [uncountable]1an amount of something that is lost or destroyedPenalties should be introduced for excessive wastage of materials.Our courses are designed to maximise the learning process and minimise time and money wastage.2natural wastageHUMAN RESOURCES a reduction in the number of people working for a company, organization etc because workers decide to leave or stop working, not because they have lost their jobsWe achieved a 40% reduction in staff through natural wastage and redeployment to other offices.wast·age nounChineseSyllable Corpus or in a way especially destroyed, something Business when lost is |
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