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Entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense
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retrenchment
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Retrenchment may refer to : Layoff , also known as retrenchment in South African English Retrenchment - a political theory Retrenchment (military) - a technical term in military fortification Retrenchment (computing)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of lopping off or pruning," c.1600, from obsolete French retrenchement "a cutting off or out," from retrencher (see retrench (v.2)). Military sense is recorded from 1580s; see retrench (v.1).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable [syn: curtailment , downsizing ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers. 2 (context military dated English) A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible (by allowing ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrenchment \Re*trench"ment\, n. [Cf. F. retrenchment.] The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing. The retrenchment of my expenses will convince you that ? mean to replace your fortune as far as I can. --Walpole. (Fort.) ...
Usage examples of retrenchment.
She bestowed five thousand pounds per annum, out of the post-office, on the duke of Marlborough: she suffered seven hundred pounds to be charged weekly on the same office, for the service of the public: she expended several hundred thousand pounds in building the castle of Blenheim: she allowed four thousand pounds annually to prince Charles of Denmark: she sustained great loses by the tin contract: she supported the poor Palatines: she exhibited many other proofs of royal bounty: and immediately before her death she had formed a plan of retrenchment, which would have reduced her yearly expenses to four hundred and fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-one pounds.
The kitchen staff could well do with some thinning out and since so much of the ethos of Porterhouse emanated from the kitchen and the endowments lavished upon it by generations of Porterhouse men, a careful campaign of retrenchment there would do much to alter the character of the College.
It furnished unlimited conversation at dinner-parties, led to endless wrangles, gave zest and point to the peace that made those dinner parties possible, furnished an excuse for retrenchment here and there, and brought into vogue great bazaars and balls for the Red Cross and kindred activities.
But retrenchment with cash in the bank is quite a different matter from retrenchment with a heavy debt service.
The firetrench, however, had been filled in, the retrenchments leveled.
While he had listened to his mother and Twenty-man-jones discussing the retrenchments, he had thought of them merely as numbers.