disaugment

English

Verb

disaugment (third-person singular simple present disaugments, present participle disaugmenting, simple past and past participle disaugmented)

1. (uncommon) To perform the opposite of augmentation upon.

   Antonym: augment

   • 1808, Christopher Harvey, The school of the heart, […] , page 219:

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

   • 1970, The American Economic Review:

     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 […]

   • 2008, Harry Ward Richardson, Peter Gordon, James Elliott Moore, Natural Disaster Analysis After Hurricane Katrina: Risk Assessment, Economic Impacts and Social Implications, Edward Elgar Publishing:

     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.

   • 2011 January 4, Stuart Reeves, Designing Interfaces in Public Settings: Understanding the Role of the Spectator in Human-Computer Interaction, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 54:

     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.