Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Retrench"

  1. branches
  2. ment
  3. retrenchment

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. excess

Categorically Similar

  1. employees
  2. business

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

  1. 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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