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retrenchment

/ri-trench-muhnt/US // rɪˈtrɛntʃ mənt //UK // (rɪˈtrɛntʃmənt) //

缩减,裁员,缩减开支,缩水

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
    • : Fortification. an interior work that cuts off a part of a fortification from the rest, and to which a garrison may retreat.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indiminution
as inlack
Synonyms
absence没有,缺席,缺少,不存在dearth匮乏,缺少,贫乏,匮乏的inadequacy不足,不足之处,不足的地方,不够loss损失,亏损,损耗,丧失paucity贫乏,少数,少量,少量的poverty贫困,贫穷,贫困问题,穷困reduction减少,削减,缩减,降低scarcity稀缺性,稀缺,匮乏,稀少shortage缺少,短缺,不足,不足之处shortcoming缺点,缺陷,短处,短缺shortfall差额,短缺,缺少,缺口abridgement删节,缩略语,节略,删减curtailment缩减,缩减开支,削减,缩水decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌default违约,默认的,违约金,默认defect缺陷,瑕疵,叛逃,叛逃事件deficit亏损,亏欠,亏空,赤字depletion耗损,枯竭,损耗,消耗deprivation匮乏,剥夺,褫夺,贫困destitution赤贫,穷困潦倒,穷困,贫穷distress苦恼,危难,痛苦,困扰exigency迫切性,紧迫性,迫切需求,危急情况exiguity灵活性,确切性,复杂性,确切地说inferiority自卑,自卑感,自卑心理,尊卑insufficiency不足,不充分,不够用,不充足meagerness渴望,温柔,我的心态,我的心miss错过了,错过,怀念,错过的necessity必要性,必需品,必然性,必要privation匮乏,隐私,私有化,匮乏性scantiness稀少,匮乏,稀缺性,稀少性shortness短小,短暂,短小精悍,短暂的shrinkage缩水,缩减,缩水率,萎缩shrinking缩减,缩水,萎缩,收缩slightness轻微,微不足道,轻微的,轻视stint吝啬鬼,吝惜,吝啬的,吝啬的人want想,要,想要,希望insufficience不足,不够用,不充分,不够
as indepression
as ineconomy

Examples

  • Most observers expect some retrenchment of that rally sooner or later.

  • The retrenchment comes two weeks after Sur La Table laid off 27 employees, a fifth of its corporate staff, without severance pay.

  • Hayati, who previously reported for Malaysian daily Berita Harian and English newspaper New Straits Times, has lost work due to retrenchment and is struggling to maintain her livelihood as a freelancer.

  • This has led to layoffs, waning of capital investment and a broad industry retrenchment.

  • The retrenchment could help to erase debt and free up money to invest in their core businesses.

  • The Washington Post, after a difficult four-year retrenchment, has tapped Boston Globe Editor Marty Baron to run the newsroom.

  • The Obama era, so far, is all about repair and retrenchment.

  • Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the committee chairman, quickly denied that any sort of retrenchment was under way.

  • One might think that this emotional isolationism would bring demands for military retrenchment.

  • On some issues, such as Afghanistan, the Retrenchment Republicans sound like the left wing of the Democratic Party.

  • But any sensible plan of retrenchment in their household expenses had never been evolved in her mind.

  • In 1897 a heavy cut in our appropriations made it necessary to consider every possible method of retrenchment.

  • The cry for 'retrenchment' was joined to the cry for reform.

  • Cobden's policy of peace and retrenchment, however, became more and more unpopular.

  • The Society has had its periods of stagnation and disappointment; at times its directors have felt driven to retrenchment.