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retrenchment Definition

re·trench·ment (-mənt)

noun

  1. a retrenching; esp., a reduction of expenses
  2. a rampart or breastwork within the main fortification

Etymology: MFr

retrenchment Synonyms

retrenchment

n.

  1. A reduction

    abatement, decrease, deduction; see reduction 1.

  2. Thrift

    curtailing, thriftiness, frugality; see economy 2.

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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