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retrench
[ ri-trench ]
verb (used with object)
- to cut down, reduce, or diminish; curtail (expenses).
- to cut off or remove.
- Military. to protect by a retrenchment.
verb (used without object)
- to economize; reduce expenses:
They retrenched by eliminating half of the workers.
retrench
/ rɪˈtrɛntʃ /
verb
- to reduce or curtail (costs); economize
- tr to shorten, delete, or abridge
- tr to protect by a retrenchment
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Derived Forms
- reˈtrenchable, adjective
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Other Words From
- re·trencha·ble adjective
- re·trencher noun
- unre·trencha·ble adjective
- unre·trenched adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of retrench1
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Example Sentences
Their instinct is to hold their ground rather than retrench, advance rather than retreat, intimidate rather than negotiate.
He pleases me very much by saying that he finds not a sentence that he can retrench in the first volume of "The Mill."
If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant it is his character to be so; and if I retrench it he is no longer Ovid.
One of the hardest words a missionary can get from his Home Board is the word "retrench."
Charles really wished to retrench his expenses; but Mrs. Germaine's pride was an insuperable obstacle to all his plans of economy.
How could it be that a man who had so much wit, had not enough to retrench these egregious faults?
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