Converse of object

• mean: That will inevitably mean further retrenchment so that the production base is more in line with the available, accessible market.

• require: However private investors demand lower taxes while financial volatility requires continuous fiscal retrenchment.

• experience: It also examines the changing definitions of social need these reflected and asks why welfare states have experienced retrenchment in recent years.

Preposition: in

• spending: They merely need to stop growing for retrenchment in private spending to occur.

• year: It also examines the changing definitions of social need these reflected and asks why welfare states have experienced retrenchment in recent years.

Adjective modifier

• fiscal: However private investors demand lower taxes while financial volatility requires continuous fiscal retrenchment.

• further: We are faced with further retrenchment ( efficiency gains ) or finding new, non-governmental sources of income.

• massive: Also lost, perhaps just short term, are Swiss routes to Basel and Geneva, part of that airline's massive retrenchment.

Modifies a noun

• exercise: Given the University retrenchment exercise, we asked whether there was likely to be any threat to nursery provision.

Noun used with modifier

• welfare: It is argued here that there is no evidence, only supposition, to support the conventional view that globalization demands welfare retrenchment.

• welfare-state: Challenging some tenets of the resilience thesis, this article seeks to broaden the discussion of welfare-state retrenchment.