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• n  process or result of becoming less or smaller
  the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage
• n  the amount by which something shrinks
• n  the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store
  shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting

• The shrinkage was apparent as we trekked down from the Eggishorn to Mrjelensee, a glacial lake in a valley on the left bank of the glacier.
• Here's just a handful: Arctic summer sea ice shrinkage increased by 9.
• The shrinkage theory is debated by scholars who choose to measure the middle class in different terms, whether by changing the income brackets or focusing on job categories.

• shrinking
• shoplifting

News & Articles

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• Dairy Focus: Reduce feed bunk shrink to improve profitability, feed efficiency
  Feed shrinkage is caused by many factors, including delivery weight errors, wind, birds, rodents, tires, tracked feed, cattle tossing feed, silage bunker losses, feed refusals, bunk heating and spoilage, moisture losses, mixing errors, scale accuracy, push-up blades, comingling of ingredients, feed wasted by feeders and drives, feed bunk management, plastic management, moving/storing feed and ...
  June 14, 2013 - The Fargo Forum
• Study upends theory of how Arctic ice shelves lose mass
  Researchers find warm ocean water is causing the Antarctic ice shelves to melt from the bottom up, causing greater shrinkage than iceberg break-offs
  June 14, 2013 - CBS News
• Tumor Immunotherapy Efficacy Increased in Both Breast and Prostate Cancer Preclinical Models with Addition of Galectin ...
  NORCROSS, Ga., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Galectin Therapeutics (NASDAQ: GALT), the leading developer of therapeutics that target galectin proteins to treat fibrosis and cancer, today announced that preclinical studies have shown that combining the galectin inhibitor GR-MD-02 with monoclonal antibodies that function as immune checkpoint blockade inhibitors enhance shrinkage of ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• LK Advani in Times Online
  Triumph in Karnataka will prove to be a turning point,LK Advani, the BJP leader, said in a statement. "This geographical expansion of the BJP, and the simultaneous shrinkage of the Congress party almost all over the country, shows the...
• James Schlesinger in Aero-News Network
  Overnight we've seen figures from the European community where the eurozone has shrunk in the December quarter by 1.5 per cent, that comes on figures last week where the shrinkage in the US economy in the December quarter was 1.0 per cent. What... Wayne Swan http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Swan&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG7ZxzGqRqSaDCY6sH3TvmioKvQQQ The Australian http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25053923-26103,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFT9SyyoFzOZO87SzCD3Ktd6_cm5A Feb 13, 2009 89729 119381 shrinkage As a result, the nuclear mission has been underfunded and this has resulted in a shrinkage of billets for units and even those shrunken billets remain unfilled in many cases," Schlesinger said.