Crossword clues for retrenchment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrenchment \Re*trench"ment\, n. [Cf. F. retrenchment.]
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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.
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(Fort.) A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation.
Syn: Lessening; curtailment; diminution; reduction; abridgment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 defenders to retreat into and fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work).
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]
Wikipedia
Retrenchment is a technique associated with Formal Methods that was introduced to address some of the perceived limitations of formal, model based refinement, for situations in which refinement might be regarded as desirable in principle, but turned out to be unusable, or nearly unusable, in practice. It was primarily developed at the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.
Retrenchment (, an old form of retranchement, from retrancher, to cut down, cut short) is an act of cutting down or reduction, particularly of public expenditure.
Retrenchment is a technical term in fortification, where it is applied to a secondary work or series of works constructed in rear of existing defences to bar the further progress of the enemy who succeeds in breaching or storming these. An example was in the siege of Port Arthur in 1904.
A retrenchment can also be referred to as an entrenchment.
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)
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.