retrench in English

verb

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

synonyms: economize, cut back, make cutbacks, make savings, make economies, reduce expenditure, be economical, be frugal, tighten one's belt

verb

• economize, cut back, make cutbacks, make savings, make economies, reduce expenditure, be economical, be frugal, tighten one's belt
• reduce, cut, cut back, cut down, pare, pare down, slim down, make reductions in, make cutbacks in, trim, prune, shorten, abridge, slash

Use "retrench" in a sentence

1. Bucoliast autarkies exortion epitapher retrench

2. The company had to retrench.

3. Inflation has forced us to retrench.

4. Explain: for the sake of retrench disk spcae.

5. The company had to retrench because of falling orders.

6. As business is bad these days, we have to retrench.

7. Some common synonyms of Curtail are abbreviate, abridge, retrench, and shorten

8. Some common synonyms of Abridge are abbreviate, curtail, retrench, and shorten

9. The mess of Wall Street means the families have to retrench.

10. Pru-Bache is to retrench to Bache's old strength of retail stockbroking.

11. Some common synonyms of Abbreviate are abridge, curtail, retrench, and shorten

12. Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.

13. At this stage, the Government began to retrench on its nuclear programmes.

14. Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers: repent and retrench before it is too late.

15. It is not a conservative and passive policy, still less a policy to retrench money supply.

16. Why, it is only an hour since I read a cablegram in the newspapers beginning "Russia Proposes to Retrench."

17. Curtail verb reduce, cut, diminish, decrease, dock, cut back, shorten, lessen, cut short, pare down, retrench NATO plans to Curtail the number of troops being sent to the region

18. Curtail verb reduce, cut, diminish, decrease, dock, cut back, shorten, lessen, cut short, pare down, retrench NATO plans to Curtail the number of troops being sent to the region