wastage
Resources lost carelessly
Wastage is the process of wasting or the amount wasted.
It often appears in contexts where loss is measured systematically: food wastage in restaurants, wastage of natural resources.
In business and military contexts, wastage refers to reduction in personnel through attrition, resignation, or death rather than deliberate cuts: The department shrank through natural wastage.
Being without something
- depletionReduction of supply
- squanderingReckless depletion of resources
- inefficiencySuboptimal use of resources
- leakageUnintended fluid escape
drain · consumption · excess · overuse · misuse · spoilage · runoff · spillage
Extreme bodily thinness
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- witheringDrying and declining
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
weakness · decline · degeneration · thinning · shrinkage · consumption · frailty · debilitation
Food degradation process
- expirationEnd of validity
- rotOrganic breakdown process
- leftoversUneaten food kept afterward
- scrapsSmall remaining pieces
compost · perishing · decay · decomposition · mold · staleness · bruising · wilting
Gradual reduction through loss
- turnoverSales volume or attrition
- layoffsMass job eliminations
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
exodus · resignation · departure · brain drain · staff reduction · headcount · churn · dropout
loss
Being without something
- depletionReduction of supply
- squanderingReckless depletion of resources
- inefficiencySuboptimal use of resources
leakage · drain · consumption · excess · overuse · misuse · spoilage · runoff · spillage · dissipation
emaciation
Extreme bodily thinness
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- witheringDrying and declining
cachexia · weakness · decline · degeneration · thinning · shrinkage · consumption · frailty · debilitation · weight loss
spoilage
Food degradation process
- expirationEnd of validity
- rotOrganic breakdown process
- leftoversUneaten food kept afterward
scraps · compost · perishing · decay · decomposition · mold · staleness · bruising · wilting · rancidity
attrition
Gradual reduction through loss
- turnoverSales volume or attrition
- layoffsMass job eliminations
- redundancyNeedless duplication
downsizing · exodus · resignation · departure · brain drain · staff reduction · headcount · churn · dropout · retirement
scrap
Discarded bit or tussle
- offcutsWaste from cutting materials
- byproductSecondary outcome of production
- defectsFaults or imperfections
rejects · residue · slag · tailings · effluent · emissions · trimmings · shavings · sawdust · culls
- Deteriorationdecay, rot, degradation, deterioration, corrosion
- gradual declinefading, waning, dwindling, diminishing, ebbing
- depletionsdrain, exhaustion, consumption, draining, emptying
- overuseoveruse, overconsumption, overexploitation, excess, misuse
- waste wordsspoil, rot, decay, trash, discard
- mass lossevaporation, sublimation, ablation, erosion, corrosion
wastageconservation
Preventing waste or loss
preservation · saving · accumulation · retention · salvage
wastagerestoration
Returning something to condition
regeneration · reclamation · reconstruction · renewal · rebuilding
wastageefficiency
Productive without waste
optimization · utilization · productivity · resourcefulness · economy