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Definition: Shrinkage |
ShrinkageNoun1. Process or result of becoming less or smaller: "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage". 2. The amount by which something shrinks. 3. The act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shrinkage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Volume decrease caused by drying and chemical changes; a function of time but not of temperature or of stress due to the external load. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | Contracting of the surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A reduction in the proportion of acceptable devices or integrated circuits occurring in a particular manufactured batch, as a result of failures in progressive stages of fabrication and testing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Loss of water in a produce resulting in faded appearance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Shrinkage of warp, caused by interlacing with weft. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The difference between the dimensions of the mould cavity and the moulding at room temperature, expressed in inches per inch. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The contraction and increase of density of textile fibers and yarns causing a change in shape and size of textile fabrics. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Relative reduction in the dimensions of a sheet. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | Practically all metals contract during solidification, the amount depending upon the metal. . . . If the -- is localized in one or a few areas, it is called a pipe. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The decrease in volume of a soil or fill material through the reduction of voids by mechanical compaction, superimposed loads, or natural consolidation b. The settling or reduction in volume of earthen fills, cement slurries, or concrete on setting c. In bitmaking by the powder-metal processes, the difference between the dimensions of the finished bit crown and those of the bit mold d. The decrease in volume of clayey soil or sediment owing to reduction ofvoid volume, principally by drying. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In sales, shrinkage is the loss rate of products between point of manufacture and point of sale. Sometimes shrinkage may be as high as 15% to 20% of total volume, having a major negative impact on profits. Shrinkage is often considered a cost of doing business in retail.Shrinkage is for a large part due to theft or some other crime, and the prevention of this type of shrinkage is one reason for security guards. Also some shrinkage is due to damage in transit, shipping errors or misplaced goods.
See also: economics, marketing, product management, retail
List of Marketing Topics List of Management Topics List of Economics Topics List of Accounting Topics List of Finance Topics List of Economists Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shrinkage."
Synonyms: ShrinkageSynonyms: shoplifting (n), shrinking (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: take-up (industry). |
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 | Didn't allow for shrinkage. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Conversion. Hosiery factory. Permalon solution, a chemical mixture used on mosquito netting is mixed by a worker in a large Eastern mill which formerly made women's stockings. This chemical solution stiffens the netting and prevents subsequent shrinkage,. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Going down! Partially-assembled, a big gun is lowered into the shrinkage pit of an eastern arsenal, where the cannon is nearing completion for the war program. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The laser energy destroys prostate tissue and causes shrinkage. (references) | |
In these cases, there may be actual shrinkage (atrophy or wasting) of brain tissue. (references) | ||
Anticonvulsant medications can be given to prevent seizures, and doctors try to prevent contractures (shrinkage or shortening of muscles). (references) | ||
Business | Furthermore, the overall slowdown in Turkey’s economy also contributed to the shrinkage in this sector. (references) | |
In the hardware category, personal computers (PC’s) have more than compensated for the shrinkage in sales of mid-size computers and mainframes. (references) | ||
In a bid to overcome a persistent drought in the north and a widespread shrinkage of water resources, the government started in 1996 to spread water-saving irrigation technology in 300 counties across China. (references) | ||
Economic History | Taiwan | Like other developed economies, Taiwan has seen a steady shrinkage of its industrial sector. (references) |
Lithuania | Lithuanian heavy industry is impaired due to the shrinkage of orders from countries of the former Soviet Union. (references) | |
Chile | In spite of the last two years shrinkage experienced by the construction industry in Chile, foreign investors have focused their attention in this market. (references) | |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The constant shrinkage of economic growth combined with the growth of military production is putting a heavy strain on the Soviet people. |
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| "Shrinkage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.74% of the time. "Shrinkage" is used about 94 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.74% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 94 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "shrinkage": shrinkage allowance ♦ shrinkage at early ages ♦ shrinkage cavity ♦ shrinkage crack. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "shrinkage": shrinkage-time. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shrinkage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkurtim (abbreviation, abridgement, abridgment, clipping, contraction, crop, curtailment, cut, cutback, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, shrink, the ax, the axe), tkurrje (contraction, shrink), mbledhje (accumulation, addition, assemblage, assembly, clearing, collection, congregation, contraction, convocation, council, erection, furl, gathering, Ingathering, meeting, muster, picking, proceedings, rally, reaping, retraction, round up, session, sitting, squat, summation, turn out). (various references) | |
Arabic | تقلص (contract, cringe, dwindle, retract, retraction, shrink, shrivel), تضاؤل (fading, wane), إنكماش (retraction, shrink, tunnel), إنقباض (constriction, contraction, retraction, shrink, shrinking, tone). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свиване (compression, constriction, contraction, cringing, crouch, flection, flick, inflection, inflexion, retraction, shrink, shrug), слягане, намаляване (abatement, abridgement, attenuation, ax, axe, comminution, contraction, decrement, deduction, degression, depletion, diminution, dipping, impairment, lessening, reduction, relaxation, wane). (various references) | |
Chinese | "缩 (Constricted, Contracted, Contracting, contraction, Necked, retraction, shrinking, shrunk, shrunken). (various references) | |
Czech | srážení (condensation, discouragement), zmenšení (abatement, contraction, decrease, diminution, reduction). (various references) | |
Danish | svind (contraction, evaporation loss, losses, to contract, waste), sugetragt (fettling, pipe(in ingot), vug), spild (abatement, overspill, spill, spill situation, spillage, wasting), visning (indicated value, reading, wilting, withering), udtoerring (dehydration, desiccation, withering), krympningens stoerrelse (amount of shrinkage), krympning (amount of shrinkage, cockle, contraction), kædeindgang under vævning (shortening, take up), indgang (access, entrance, portal). (various references) | |
Dutch | slinkholte (contraction cavity, fettling, pipe, pipe(in ingot), piping, shrink holes, shrinkage cavity, tube, vug), vlieten (flow), verleppen (fade, wither), uitdrogen (dry), krimpmaat (amount of shrinkage), krimping, krimpen (back, backing, contraction, shrink on a piece on to another, shrink-fit, to contract, to shrink, to shrink on), krimp (contraction), inkrimping (abbreviation, abridgement), contractie (contraction). (various references) | |
Farsi | چروک خوردگی , چروک (Plica, Wizen, Wrinkle), انقباض (Contraction, Pluck, Retraction, Torsion, Traction), اب رفتگی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kutistuminen (contraction, striction, to contract), kutistuma (amount of shrinkage, contraction, piping, striction), kuivuminen (dehydration, desiccation, drying, scorching, withering), kuihtuminen (wilting, withering), aukeilu (cissing, crawling), aukeaminen (cissing, crawling). (various references) | |
French | contraction (shrinking), rétrécissement, diminution (shortening). (various references) | |
German | Schrumpfung (atrophy, contraction, decline, depreciation, diminution, dwindling, shrinking), schwund (atrophy, decline, decrease, depletion, dwindling, fading, loss, ullage, wastage, waste), schwindung (fettling, pipe(in ingot), vug), eingehen (arrive, be adopted, be catchy, be received, come in, contract, enter, enter into, fold, go under, incur, leave its mark, pine away, shrink, sink in, take up, undertake). (various references) | |
Greek | συρρίκνωση (amount of shrinkage, occlusion, withering), συστολή (bashfulness, constraint, contraction, coyness, shyness, systole). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ"ת ""תכוצות, "תכוצות (contraction, shrinking), "צטמקות (contraction, desiccation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsugorodás (constriction), csökkenés (abatement, attenuation, decline, decrease, diminution, droop, easement, go down, lessening, letdown, loss, reduce, reduction, remission, shrinking, subsidence, waste). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penciutan (narrowing down, thinning out). (various references) | |
Italian | restringimento (constriction), contrazione (constriction, contraction, jerk, twitch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 緊縮 (contraction, economy, retrenchment), 縮み (cotton crepe). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | き"しゅく (contraction, economy, retrenchment), ちぢみ (cotton crepe). (various references) | |
Korean | 수축량. (various references) | |
Manx | cribbey (contract, curb, shrink). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inkageshray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | retração (recoil, retraction, withholdment), enrugamento (corrugation, wrinkle), encolhimento (contraction). (various references) | |
Romanian | scorojire (casting), contractare (contraction, stricture). (various references) | |
Russian | сокращение (abbr, abbrev, abbreviation, abridgement, abridgment, breviary, cancellation, constriction, contraction, curtailment, cutback, cutting down, dockage, сокр., reduction, retrenchment, shortening, shrinking). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smanjenje (abatement, curtailment, cut, cutting down, decrease, extenuation, lowering, mark down, markdown, mitigation, reduction, waning), skupljanje (agglomeration, assemblage, gathering, levy, round up, shrink, shrinking), popust (discount, rebate), manjak od sušenja. (various references) | |
Spanish | encogimiento (constriction, shrink, shrinking), contracción (contraction, shrinking). (various references) | |
Swedish | krympning (contraction, to contract). (various references) | |
Thai | การห". (various references) | |
Turkish | küçülme (abasement, becoming smaller, decrease, derogation, self abasement), fire (leakage, outage, turnover, ullage, Wantage, wastage), değeri düşme (depreciation), daralma (contraction, depression, getting bored, narrowing, stricture), büzülme (contraction), çekme payı (scalage), çekme (allure, allurement, bearing, draft, draught, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, haulage, hitch, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стиснення (grip, nip, pinch, pressing, squeeze, wring), усушка (wastage), збігання (shrink), пересихання. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shrinkage": shrinkages. (additional references) | |
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"Shrinkage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: srihnkage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shrinkage" (pronounced shri"ngkij) |
| 3 | -k i j | blockage, breakage, package, repackage, trackage. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kashering. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-k-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: gherkins, hearings, hearsing, sharking, shearing. | |
-2 letters: earings, erasing, gainers, garnish, gherkin, hangers, hankers, hankies, harkens, harking, hearing, hegaris, hegiras, hernias, hingers, rankish, reagins, regains, reginas, rehangs, searing, seringa, shakier, shaking, sharing, sinkage, skreigh, snakier. | |
-3 letters: angers, arisen, arshin, arsine, ashier, ashing, asking, earing, easing, gainer, garish, gasher, gaskin, geisha, gerahs, grains, haeing, hanger. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-k-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: shrinkages. | |
+3 letters: earthshaking, nightwalkers, phrasemaking. | |
+4 letters: benchmarkings, housebreaking, phrasemakings. | |
+5 letters: earthshakingly, housebreakings. | |
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