decruitment

English

Etymology

de- +‎ recruitment

Noun

decruitment (uncountable)

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