shrinkage

noun

Etymology

From shrink + -age.

  1. inherited from *skrinkwaną
  2. inherited from sċrincan
  3. inherited from schrynken
  4. suffixed as shrinkage — “shrink + age

Definitions

  1. The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.

    • How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA