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 […]