Commonly Paired Adjectives
- excess
What Google Knows
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.
Related Definition
- retrench:
v (transitive) To cut down or reduce.
v (transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
v (transitive) To confine; to limit; to restrict.
v (transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
v (intransitive) To abridge; to curtail.
v (intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.
v (intransitive) To live less expensively; to economize.
v (transitive) To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
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