decruitment
nounEtymology From de- + recruitment.
1
The act of a company reducing its workforce, either by a reduction in recruitment, or by redundancy.
2
Medicine, Sciences The inability to detect changes in loudness when the intensity of a sound wave changes.
- The right ear has a 40 dB hearing loss with decruitment.1991, Frederick N. Martin, Introduction to Audiology, page 159:
- […] retrocochlear disorder can actually result in decruitment […]2003, Michael E. Glasscock, Aina J. Gulya, Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear, volume 1, page 163: