shrinkage
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The loss of inventory between receipt and sale, typically from theft, damage, or administrative error.
A tighter cycle-count regime cut shrinkage from two per cent of turnover to well under one.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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