retrenching 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 "retrenching" in a sentence

1. There were unknown sounds of subhuman things proceeding relentlessly forward, stopping, retrenching, to proceed onward again.

2. Synonyms for Curtailing include docking, shortening, reducing, cutting, cutting back, decreasing, diminishing, lessening, retrenching and truncating

3. But I feel the lean movement is doing exactly that, retrenching into operations, reverting to old fashioned monitoring and Consequenting and using the Toyota tools to exert pressure on value-adding employees