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/riˈtrenCH/,
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retrenched, past tense; retrenched, past participle; retrenches, 3rd person singular present; retrenching, present participle;
  1. (of a company, government, or individual) Reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty
    • - as a result of the recession the company retrenched
    • - if people are forced to retrench their expenditure trade will suffer
  2. Reduce or diminish (something) in extent or quantity
    • - right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state
  1. tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
  2. make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"
  3. (retrenchment) entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense
  4. (retrenchment) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
  5. Retrenchment (retrenchment, an old form of retranchement, from retrancher, to cut down, cut short) is an act of cutting down or reduction, particularly of public expenditure.
  6. (Retrenchment (computing)) Retrenchment is a technique associated with Formal Methods that was introduced to address some of the perceived limitations of formal, model based refinement, for situations in which refinement might be regarded as desirable in principle, but turned out to be unusable, ...
  7. To cut down or reduce something; To dig or redig a trench where one already was; To take up a new defensive position (from military term retrenchment)
  8. (Retrenchment) Termination resulting from redundancy.
  9. (Retrenchment) A reduction in an amount of money contained in a general appropriation bill. Under the Holman Rule in the House of Representatives, a germane provision in, or amendment to, such a bill is permitted if it changes existing law by reducing the amount of money covered by the bill. ...
  10. (Retrenchment) a secondary line of earthworks built to seal off a gap in the main line or to prevent a breakthrough.
  11. (retrenchment) Employee termination because of changing business, financial, technological or organisational circumstances.
  12. reduce the number of employees; lay off: e.g., I was retrenched and now I'm on the dole.return—(of a journey)—to go somewhere and come back; round-trip: e.g. It's six kilometres return to Ipswich.
  13. The stars are not aligned for success. "Financing is limited, tenants are scarce, vacancies increase, and construction costs remain high."