retrench 的 2 个定义
- to cut down, reduce, or diminish; curtail.
- to cut off or remove.
- Military. to protect by a retrenchment.
- to economize; reduce expenses: They retrenched by eliminating half of the workers.
retrench 近义词
save
economize
更多retrench例句
- Now cities such as Portland, considered among the most ambitious in moving to reshape its police force, have retrenched.
- Tim PetersonPublishers are going to be wringing more out of what they already haveAfter a few years of exploring ways to diversify revenue, publishers are going to spend the first half of the year retrenching around what works.
- After briefly retrenching at the beginning of the pandemic, home sales soared.
- Indeed, in Europe, the company has retrenched its third-party data targeting product offering.
- Their instinct is to hold their ground rather than retrench, advance rather than retreat, intimidate rather than negotiate.
- He pleases me very much by saying that he finds not a sentence that he can retrench in the first volume of "The Mill."
- If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant it is his character to be so; and if I retrench it he is no longer Ovid.
- One of the hardest words a missionary can get from his Home Board is the word "retrench."
- Charles really wished to retrench his expenses; but Mrs. Germaine's pride was an insuperable obstacle to all his plans of economy.
- How could it be that a man who had so much wit, had not enough to retrench these egregious faults?