disaugment

present singular third person disaugments · participle present disaugmenting · participle past disaugmented · past disaugmented

1. uncommonTo perform the opposite of augmentation upon.

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

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

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   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[…]

   1970, The American Economic Review

   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.

   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

   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.

   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

   Antonyms: augment