Definition of retrench in English:

retrench

verb rɪˈtrɛn(t)ʃrəˈtrɛn(t)ʃ

[no object]

1(of an organization or individual) reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty.
as a result of the recession the company retrenched
with object if people are forced to retrench their expenditure trade will suffer
Example sentencesExamples
- With companies retrenching and investment falling, the U.S. is relying on the high-spending habits of consumers to keep recession at bay.
- Consumers retrenched, cutting back on spending and saving huge sums to protect themselves.
- As profits are squeezed, firms are forced to retrench.
- We see market conditions worsening as financial services firms retrench still further.
- Similar considerations apply to households, many of which have seen substantial losses in their stock market wealth and are presumably retrenching in response to widespread job losses and reductions in hours of work.
- Companies invest when interest rates are low and capital is easy to raise, and then retrench savagely as rates rise.
- At some point, one argument runs, households will have to retrench, slowing consumption and therefore economic growth.
- First, declining sales growth indicated economic trouble and a need to retrench and reduce costs in a business environment in which managers pay close attention to sales growth.
- If the United States were to experience a deflation in housing prices, consumers would be forced to retrench.
- More companies are likely to retrench or quietly exit from venture programs if the recent stock market downturn persists, simply because too much money has been chasing too few good deals.
- When the American consumer retrenches, as now seems inevitable (but don't ask me when), the result is going to be a nasty economic shock in countries where consumer demand is too lacklustre to pick up some of the slack.
- Many homeowners, through mortgage refinancing and home equity loans, have largely withdrawn their home equity to support high rates of spending and can be expected to retrench.
- By necessity, economies will have to retrench and become more local, more self-centered.
- The gloomy outlook on bonuses comes as investment banks worldwide are retrenching in the face of dwindling business volumes.
- Signs are finally beginning to emerge that the U.S. consumer - the engine of U.S. growth - is at last beginning to retrench.
- Small businesses are pulling back and retrenching - but they really can't understand what they should do.
- Nonetheless, the chapters in this book, and the literature more generally, address not only organizational turnarounds but also organizational decline, crisis, retrenching, and downsizing.
- Rising losses led to a restriction of new bank funding, forcing the company to drastically retrench (including selling its car lots) and restrict lending.
- The consumer really will start retrenching, and the contagion will spread to the retail and service sectors with more job losses ensuing.
- When troubles start, they understandably retrench their consumption and begin to build savings in anticipation of dimmer times to come.
Synonyms
economize, cut back, make cutbacks, make savings, make economies, reduce expenditure, be economical, be sparing, be frugal, budget, tighten one's belt, husband one's resources, draw in one's horns, save, scrimp and save, cut corners
1. 1.1South African, Australian with object Make (an employee) redundant.
  if there are excess staff they should be retrenched
  Example sentencesExamples
  For the whole of 1998, the number of workers retrenched was 83,865, a sharp increase from the 19,000 retrenched in 1997.
  Many employees are retrenched or retired with little or no preparation about life after leaving employment.
  Sadly, when the manufacturing operations ceased, local workers had to be retrenched.
  ‘Unfortunately we had to retrench some our workers,’ said Cranz.
  About 300 employees were retrenched when the companies were placed in provisional liquidation.
  It was the economic downturn, everyone was being retrenched and many people needed jobs.
  Katherine made sure she packed happy family photos to remind her of her family, way back when they were a family and her dad didn't get retrenched and is now struggling to find a new job.
  But if a person is retrenched in one garment factory, we will offer him or her to another garment factory.
  What will we do when the plastic bag extruding company closes down and all their employees are retrenched?
  This allows you to borrow later - at a low interest rate - should you be retrenched.
  If there were not enough volunteers for retrenchment packages, Telkom would go ahead with retrenching workers.
  It emerged this week that the miners who were retrenched earlier this year are yet to be paid their packages.
  He said in an interview from Chisamba that three top management staff had also been retrenched.
  What is preoccupying the council officials at the moment is where to get a fat cheque to pay the bloated workforce the salary arrears and then clear the terminal benefits to the majority that have opted to be retrenched.
  Taking on a mortgage and a child when the remaining breadwinner is likely to be retrenched at any moment is a large risk.
  As if council health inspectors have been retrenched, vendors are allowed to sell uncovered food stuffs, the real breeding grounds for many diseases, not only cholera.
  A slower economy in turn, would cause businesses to retrench labor, increasing unemployment and slowing consumer spending further.
  Downsizing is never popular with workforces and as senior producers attempt to mothball or close marginal mines and retrench miners they run into conflict with labor groups made up of people who themselves are in the squeeze.
  If it is necessary to retrench employees, packages will be determined according to the law.
  He said the economy was not creating jobs but was retrenching workers, shedding and ‘casualising’ jobs.
2. 1.2formal with object Reduce (something) in extent or quantity.
  right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state
  Example sentencesExamples
  The authorities began to retrench the extent of freedom extended to the press.
  At the same time, the Inuit Art Foundation closed its art boutique in downtown Ottawa and retrenched its activities and sales in suburban Nepean.
  Speculation that the company was retrenching part of its activities in Essex, especially at Dunton, has been dismissed as ‘totally incorrect and totally without any foundation’ by a spokesman at Warley.
  There are various reasons, then, why many citizens have supported right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state.
  Synonyms
  reduce, cut, cut back, cut down, cut back on, pare, pare down, slim down, bring down, make reductions in, make cutbacks in, trim, prune, whittle away/down, salami-slice, take off, decrease, lower, lessen, shorten, curtail, truncate, shrink, diminish, minimize
  informal slash, axe

Origin

Late 16th century (in the now formal usage): from obsolete French retrencher, variant of retrancher, from re- (expressing reversal) + trancher 'to cut, slice'.

Definition of retrench in US English:

retrench

verbrəˈtrɛn(t)ʃrəˈtren(t)SH

[no object]

1(of a company, government, or individual) reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty.
as a result of the recession the company retrenched
with object if people are forced to retrench their expenditure trade will suffer
Example sentencesExamples
- At some point, one argument runs, households will have to retrench, slowing consumption and therefore economic growth.
- If the United States were to experience a deflation in housing prices, consumers would be forced to retrench.
- More companies are likely to retrench or quietly exit from venture programs if the recent stock market downturn persists, simply because too much money has been chasing too few good deals.
- With companies retrenching and investment falling, the U.S. is relying on the high-spending habits of consumers to keep recession at bay.
- First, declining sales growth indicated economic trouble and a need to retrench and reduce costs in a business environment in which managers pay close attention to sales growth.
- Similar considerations apply to households, many of which have seen substantial losses in their stock market wealth and are presumably retrenching in response to widespread job losses and reductions in hours of work.
- Many homeowners, through mortgage refinancing and home equity loans, have largely withdrawn their home equity to support high rates of spending and can be expected to retrench.
- When the American consumer retrenches, as now seems inevitable (but don't ask me when), the result is going to be a nasty economic shock in countries where consumer demand is too lacklustre to pick up some of the slack.
- By necessity, economies will have to retrench and become more local, more self-centered.
- Companies invest when interest rates are low and capital is easy to raise, and then retrench savagely as rates rise.
- Signs are finally beginning to emerge that the U.S. consumer - the engine of U.S. growth - is at last beginning to retrench.
- The gloomy outlook on bonuses comes as investment banks worldwide are retrenching in the face of dwindling business volumes.
- As profits are squeezed, firms are forced to retrench.
- The consumer really will start retrenching, and the contagion will spread to the retail and service sectors with more job losses ensuing.
- Rising losses led to a restriction of new bank funding, forcing the company to drastically retrench (including selling its car lots) and restrict lending.
- We see market conditions worsening as financial services firms retrench still further.
- Consumers retrenched, cutting back on spending and saving huge sums to protect themselves.
- When troubles start, they understandably retrench their consumption and begin to build savings in anticipation of dimmer times to come.
- Nonetheless, the chapters in this book, and the literature more generally, address not only organizational turnarounds but also organizational decline, crisis, retrenching, and downsizing.
- Small businesses are pulling back and retrenching - but they really can't understand what they should do.
Synonyms
economize, cut back, make cutbacks, make savings, make economies, reduce expenditure, be economical, be sparing, be frugal, budget, tighten one's belt, husband one's resources, draw in one's horns, save, scrimp and save, cut corners
1. 1.1formal with object Reduce or diminish (something) in extent or quantity.
  right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state
  Example sentencesExamples
  At the same time, the Inuit Art Foundation closed its art boutique in downtown Ottawa and retrenched its activities and sales in suburban Nepean.
  There are various reasons, then, why many citizens have supported right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state.
  The authorities began to retrench the extent of freedom extended to the press.
  Speculation that the company was retrenching part of its activities in Essex, especially at Dunton, has been dismissed as ‘totally incorrect and totally without any foundation’ by a spokesman at Warley.
  Synonyms
  reduce, cut, cut back, cut down, cut back on, pare, pare down, slim down, bring down, make reductions in, make cutbacks in, trim, prune, whittle away, whittle down, salami-slice, take off, decrease, lower, lessen, shorten, curtail, truncate, shrink, diminish, minimize

Origin

Late 16th century (in the now formal usage): from obsolete French retrencher, variant of retrancher, from re- (expressing reversal) + trancher ‘to cut, slice’.

单词	retrench
释义	Definition of retrench in English: retrench verb rɪˈtrɛn(t)ʃrəˈtrɛn(t)ʃ [no object] 1(of an organization or individual) reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty. as a result of the recession the company retrenched with object if people are forced to retrench their expenditure trade will suffer Example sentencesExamples With companies retrenching and investment falling, the U.S. is relying on the high-spending habits of consumers to keep recession at bay. Consumers retrenched, cutting back on spending and saving huge sums to protect themselves. As profits are squeezed, firms are forced to retrench. We see market conditions worsening as financial services firms retrench still further. Similar considerations apply to households, many of which have seen substantial losses in their stock market wealth and are presumably retrenching in response to widespread job losses and reductions in hours of work. Companies invest when interest rates are low and capital is easy to raise, and then retrench savagely as rates rise. At some point, one argument runs, households will have to retrench, slowing consumption and therefore economic growth. First, declining sales growth indicated economic trouble and a need to retrench and reduce costs in a business environment in which managers pay close attention to sales growth. If the United States were to experience a deflation in housing prices, consumers would be forced to retrench. More companies are likely to retrench or quietly exit from venture programs if the recent stock market downturn persists, simply because too much money has been chasing too few good deals. When the American consumer retrenches, as now seems inevitable (but don't ask me when), the result is going to be a nasty economic shock in countries where consumer demand is too lacklustre to pick up some of the slack. Many homeowners, through mortgage refinancing and home equity loans, have largely withdrawn their home equity to support high rates of spending and can be expected to retrench. By necessity, economies will have to retrench and become more local, more self-centered. The gloomy outlook on bonuses comes as investment banks worldwide are retrenching in the face of dwindling business volumes. Signs are finally beginning to emerge that the U.S. consumer - the engine of U.S. growth - is at last beginning to retrench. Small businesses are pulling back and retrenching - but they really can't understand what they should do. Nonetheless, the chapters in this book, and the literature more generally, address not only organizational turnarounds but also organizational decline, crisis, retrenching, and downsizing. Rising losses led to a restriction of new bank funding, forcing the company to drastically retrench (including selling its car lots) and restrict lending. The consumer really will start retrenching, and the contagion will spread to the retail and service sectors with more job losses ensuing. When troubles start, they understandably retrench their consumption and begin to build savings in anticipation of dimmer times to come. Synonyms economize, cut back, make cutbacks, make savings, make economies, reduce expenditure, be economical, be sparing, be frugal, budget, tighten one's belt, husband one's resources, draw in one's horns, save, scrimp and save, cut corners 1.1South African, Australian with object Make (an employee) redundant. if there are excess staff they should be retrenched Example sentencesExamples For the whole of 1998, the number of workers retrenched was 83,865, a sharp increase from the 19,000 retrenched in 1997. Many employees are retrenched or retired with little or no preparation about life after leaving employment. Sadly, when the manufacturing operations ceased, local workers had to be retrenched. ‘Unfortunately we had to retrench some our workers,’ said Cranz. About 300 employees were retrenched when the companies were placed in provisional liquidation. It was the economic downturn, everyone was being retrenched and many people needed jobs. Katherine made sure she packed happy family photos to remind her of her family, way back when they were a family and her dad didn't get retrenched and is now struggling to find a new job. But if a person is retrenched in one garment factory, we will offer him or her to another garment factory. What will we do when the plastic bag extruding company closes down and all their employees are retrenched? This allows you to borrow later - at a low interest rate - should you be retrenched. If there were not enough volunteers for retrenchment packages, Telkom would go ahead with retrenching workers. It emerged this week that the miners who were retrenched earlier this year are yet to be paid their packages. He said in an interview from Chisamba that three top management staff had also been retrenched. What is preoccupying the council officials at the moment is where to get a fat cheque to pay the bloated workforce the salary arrears and then clear the terminal benefits to the majority that have opted to be retrenched. Taking on a mortgage and a child when the remaining breadwinner is likely to be retrenched at any moment is a large risk. As if council health inspectors have been retrenched, vendors are allowed to sell uncovered food stuffs, the real breeding grounds for many diseases, not only cholera. A slower economy in turn, would cause businesses to retrench labor, increasing unemployment and slowing consumer spending further. Downsizing is never popular with workforces and as senior producers attempt to mothball or close marginal mines and retrench miners they run into conflict with labor groups made up of people who themselves are in the squeeze. If it is necessary to retrench employees, packages will be determined according to the law. He said the economy was not creating jobs but was retrenching workers, shedding and ‘casualising’ jobs. 1.2formal with object Reduce (something) in extent or quantity. right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state Example sentencesExamples The authorities began to retrench the extent of freedom extended to the press. At the same time, the Inuit Art Foundation closed its art boutique in downtown Ottawa and retrenched its activities and sales in suburban Nepean. Speculation that the company was retrenching part of its activities in Essex, especially at Dunton, has been dismissed as ‘totally incorrect and totally without any foundation’ by a spokesman at Warley. There are various reasons, then, why many citizens have supported right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state. Synonyms reduce, cut, cut back, cut down, cut back on, pare, pare down, slim down, bring down, make reductions in, make cutbacks in, trim, prune, whittle away/down, salami-slice, take off, decrease, lower, lessen, shorten, curtail, truncate, shrink, diminish, minimize informal slash, axe Origin Late 16th century (in the now formal usage): from obsolete French retrencher, variant of retrancher, from re- (expressing reversal) + trancher 'to cut, slice'. Definition of retrench in US English: retrench verbrəˈtrɛn(t)ʃrəˈtren(t)SH [no object] 1(of a company, government, or individual) reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty. as a result of the recession the company retrenched with object if people are forced to retrench their expenditure trade will suffer Example sentencesExamples At some point, one argument runs, households will have to retrench, slowing consumption and therefore economic growth. If the United States were to experience a deflation in housing prices, consumers would be forced to retrench. More companies are likely to retrench or quietly exit from venture programs if the recent stock market downturn persists, simply because too much money has been chasing too few good deals. With companies retrenching and investment falling, the U.S. is relying on the high-spending habits of consumers to keep recession at bay. First, declining sales growth indicated economic trouble and a need to retrench and reduce costs in a business environment in which managers pay close attention to sales growth. Similar considerations apply to households, many of which have seen substantial losses in their stock market wealth and are presumably retrenching in response to widespread job losses and reductions in hours of work. Many homeowners, through mortgage refinancing and home equity loans, have largely withdrawn their home equity to support high rates of spending and can be expected to retrench. When the American consumer retrenches, as now seems inevitable (but don't ask me when), the result is going to be a nasty economic shock in countries where consumer demand is too lacklustre to pick up some of the slack. By necessity, economies will have to retrench and become more local, more self-centered. Companies invest when interest rates are low and capital is easy to raise, and then retrench savagely as rates rise. Signs are finally beginning to emerge that the U.S. consumer - the engine of U.S. growth - is at last beginning to retrench. The gloomy outlook on bonuses comes as investment banks worldwide are retrenching in the face of dwindling business volumes. As profits are squeezed, firms are forced to retrench. The consumer really will start retrenching, and the contagion will spread to the retail and service sectors with more job losses ensuing. Rising losses led to a restriction of new bank funding, forcing the company to drastically retrench (including selling its car lots) and restrict lending. We see market conditions worsening as financial services firms retrench still further. Consumers retrenched, cutting back on spending and saving huge sums to protect themselves. When troubles start, they understandably retrench their consumption and begin to build savings in anticipation of dimmer times to come. Nonetheless, the chapters in this book, and the literature more generally, address not only organizational turnarounds but also organizational decline, crisis, retrenching, and downsizing. Small businesses are pulling back and retrenching - but they really can't understand what they should do. Synonyms economize, cut back, make cutbacks, make savings, make economies, reduce expenditure, be economical, be sparing, be frugal, budget, tighten one's belt, husband one's resources, draw in one's horns, save, scrimp and save, cut corners 1.1formal with object Reduce or diminish (something) in extent or quantity. right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state Example sentencesExamples At the same time, the Inuit Art Foundation closed its art boutique in downtown Ottawa and retrenched its activities and sales in suburban Nepean. There are various reasons, then, why many citizens have supported right-wing parties which seek to retrench the welfare state. The authorities began to retrench the extent of freedom extended to the press. Speculation that the company was retrenching part of its activities in Essex, especially at Dunton, has been dismissed as ‘totally incorrect and totally without any foundation’ by a spokesman at Warley. Synonyms reduce, cut, cut back, cut down, cut back on, pare, pare down, slim down, bring down, make reductions in, make cutbacks in, trim, prune, whittle away, whittle down, salami-slice, take off, decrease, lower, lessen, shorten, curtail, truncate, shrink, diminish, minimize Origin Late 16th century (in the now formal usage): from obsolete French retrencher, variant of retrancher, from re- (expressing reversal) + trancher ‘to cut, slice’.
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