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TAUX ATTRITION [4 records]

Record 1 2020-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Finances
DEF

A factor, normally expressed as a percentage, reflecting the degree of losses of personnel or materiel due to various causes within a specified period of time.

OBS

attrition rate: designation and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances militaires
DEF

Facteur, exprimé généralement en pourcentage, qui donne une idée des pertes en personnel ou en matériel dues à des causes diverses, et pour une période donnée.

OBS

taux d’attrition; taux d’usure : désignations et définition normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Recursos financieros militares
DEF

Factor, normalmente expresado en tantos por ciento, que refleja el grado de pérdidas de personal o material debido a varias causas, durante un tiempo determinado.

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Record 2 2011-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising
CONT

If the argument for a larger budget is lost, there is another route to achieving the desired end, namely to get other departments to pay expenses that are beneficial to the department escaping the charges. This process, whereby budgets are eaten up by outside forces, is sometimes called budget attrition and dramatizes the need for clarifying which budget is to be charged.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Publicité
OBS

Propositions formées à partir de "attrition rate", taux d’attrition, taux d’usure. Voir BT-194, 1990, p. 37.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Materiel Management
  • Combat Support
DEF

In stockpile planning, munitions stocked on the basis of expected daily expenditure rate, the number of combat days and the attrition rate assumed, to counter targets the number of which is unknown.

OBS

level-of-effort munitions: term and definition standardized by NATO.

Key term(s)
  • level of effort munitions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du matériel militaire
  • Soutien au combat
DEF

En planification de stocks, munitions entreposées en fonction d’une dépense journalière escomptée d’un nombre de jours de combat et d’un taux d’attrition supposés, quel que soit le nombre d’objectifs à prendre en compte.

OBS

stocks de soutien en munitions : terme et définition normalisés par l’OTAN.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión del material militar
  • Apoyo en combate
DEF

En el planeamiento de municionamiento, cantidad de municiones almacenada de acuerdo con el gasto diario, el número de días de combate y el desgaste estimado en relación con el número de objetivos desconocido que se supone.

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Record 4 1998-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
PHR

taux d’attrition des stocks

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad general
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