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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entrenched
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
▪ Not even the love scenes between Guillaume Depardieu and Anne Brochet can lift the deeply entrenched gloom.
▪ Such boundaries have to be respected for they mirror deeply entrenched attitudes and social expectations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the small towns racial prejudice was deeply entrenched.
▪ The attitudes of adults to mentally handicapped tend to be firmly entrenched, and difficult to change.
▪ The unequal treatment of men and women in the labour market is deeply entrenched in our culture.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Britain is a country without entrenched constitutional limits on the powers of its supreme regular legislator, Parliament.
▪ But changing entrenched ways of doing things and challenging powerful financial interests will be difficult, whatever the intentions of the government.
▪ He is often pictured as an outsider battling against entrenched orthodoxies.
▪ However, there is some evidence of a recent reappraisal of this entrenched attitude.
▪ No doubt, she thought, a visitor might be a very unwelcome distraction in his entrenched life.
▪ Or is this a counsel of despair which makes the culture of racism seem more entrenched and unchangeable than it really is?
▪ The more entrenched feeding problems can be very difficult to treat and take a long time to show improvement.
▪ The more entrenched unwelcome developments have become, the harder it will be to reverse them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
entrenched

established \established\ adj.

  1. brought about or set up or accepted; especially long and widely accepted; as, distrust of established authority; a team established as a member of a major league; enjoyed his prestige as an established writer; an established precedent; the established Church. Contrasted with unestablished. [Narrower terms: entrenched; implanted, planted, rooted; official; recognized]

  2. securely established; as, an established reputation.

    Syn: firm.

  3. settled securely and unconditionally.

    Syn: accomplished, effected.

  4. conforming with accepted standards.

  5. shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; as, the established facts in the case.

    Syn: proved.

  6. (Bot.) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; -- of plants.

    Syn: naturalized.

Wiktionary
entrenched

vb. (en-past of: entrench)

WordNet
entrenched
  1. adj. dug in

  2. established firmly and securely; "the entrenched power of the nobility"

Usage examples of "entrenched".

When Brutus and Cassius marched west on the same road, they had to be halted well east of the Adriatic, and a formidably entrenched force eight legions strong would bring them to an abrupt stop, no matter how enormous their own army was.

The second wave of immigrants - southern Europeans, Asians, Irish and Latinos - encountered an entrenched dominant culture of mostly Anglo- and northern-European Protestants, and suffered accordingly.

Responding to such appeals, or acting on their own initiative, the State legislatures enacted measure after measure which entrenched upon the normal life of the community very drastically.

The enemy was struck early June 24, entrenched on the heights of La Guasima, near Sevilla, on the main road from Daiquiri to the city of Santiago de Cuba.

After this, our digging proceeded apace, and we soon had a satisfactory position entrenched from Mansura to the sea.

They thought that destroying Sheol would put an end to him, but now they realize he is firmly entrenched on Earth.

The stiffest resistance came from the last one, where the entrenched miners fought with explosives and old excavating machines.

The Germans had been driven out, it is true, but they had gone only a short distance to the east, and there, upon the banks of the Aisne, had securely entrenched themselves, venting their rage upon the City by daily bombardments.

But he held only half the plateau, and at the further end of it the Boers were strongly entrenched.

In 1921, Billy Ingram promoted his hamburgers to an American society whose many subgroups were still deeply entrenched in and divided by their original ethnic traditions.

For an outnumbered, ill-armed, and most likely ill-supplied force of men, such tactics were the only intelligent way to strike at the entrenched enemy and hope to live to strike again on another night.

That means that the looters are far more organized and entrenched than just a few grave robbers skulking around deserted Indian ruins.

Within the public utilities business, Fraser Fenton, Ino, Paulsen, and others like them represented a cadre of entrenched executives who bad grown up in their jobs during easier times and refused to acknowledge that these were gone forever.

In 1863, after a long and sanguinary struggle, the Maories were entrenched in strong and fortified position on the Upper Waikato, at the end of a chain of steep hills, and covered by three miles of forts.

Entrenched and ready to fight and die, they waited as the last of the refugees ran past, terrified, screaming because they believed they had no chance of reaching the safety of the city before the goblins descended.