Meaning of disaugment | Babel Free

Definitions

To perform the opposite of augmentation upon.

uncommon

Examples

“I find that everlasting treasure / Which force deprives not, fortune disaugments not; / […]”

“Labor is being disaugmented, so wage rates and incomes per capita are falling. Thus the rate of population growth will be falling . Although the effective supply of land is growing at the same rate as the effective supply of labor[…]”

“First, is the shock labour- or capital- 'disaugmenting'? To the extent that it destroys buildings and structures, the shock is capital-disaugmenting, reducing the rate of return and the incentive to invest.”

“Another aspect highlighted in the second vignette is that participation even without discrepancies, as seen in the first vignette, involves participants exploiting an alternately 'augmented' or 'disaugmented' view.”

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