retrenchment
retrenchment
Definition
re·trench·ment (-mənt)
noun
- a retrenching; esp., a reduction of expenses
- a rampart or breastwork within the main fortification
Etymology: MFr
retrenchment
Synonyms
retrenchment
n.
retrenchment
Usage Examples
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.
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