Associations to the word «Retrenchment»
Noun
- Expenditure
- Bastion
- Taxation
- Recession
- Reform
- Lds
- Withdrawal
- Reduction
- Clement
- Debt
- Expense
- Economy
- Employer
- Employee
- Employment
- Policy
- Period
- Sector
- Spending
- Necessity
- Committee
- Closure
- Peace
- Measure
- Cut
- Senate
- Crisis
- Loan
- Government
- Tax
- Growth
- Revenue
- Scheme
- Poverty
- Campbell
- Regulation
- Payment
- Chairman
- Effort
- Market
- Service
- Young
- Programme
Adjective
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Wiktionary
RETRENCHMENT, noun. A reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers.
RETRENCHMENT, noun. (military) (dated) 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).
Dictionary definition
RETRENCHMENT, noun. Entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense.
RETRENCHMENT, noun. The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable.
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