association vs attrit

association

noun
  • A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society. 

  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something. 

  • Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. 

  • A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business. 

  • The act of associating. 

  • Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation). 

attrit

noun
  • One who voluntarily or involuntarily leaves a company; a termed employee. 

verb
  • To be reduced in quantity through attrition. 

  • To lose, or to kill, troops by attrition due to sustained firepower. 

  • To engage in attrition; to quit or drop out. 

  • To wear down through attrition, especially mechanical attrition. 

How often have the words association and attrit occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )