retrench

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Synonyms: detrench, entrench, trench, intrench, bedrench, reteach, rebranch, restretch

Antonyms: detrench, entrench, trench, intrench, bedrench, reteach, rebranch, restretch

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Verb

1. To cut down or reduce. To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
2. To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
3. To live less expensively; to economize.
4. To confine; to limit; to restrict.
5. To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
   • to retrench bastions
6. To abridge; to curtail.
7. To take up a new defensive position.
   • We must retrench and try to hold on long enough for products in development to reach the market or we will be out of business.

Verb

1. To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.

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