Meaning & use
Depletion
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The reduction in the amount or quantity of something, often a resource.
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Overfishing has led to the depletion of local cod stocks.
The depletion of the ozone layer was a major environmental concern in the 1980s.
A note on using this word
Widely used in environmental science and economics to describe the using-up of finite resources.
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exhaustionreduction
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