retrench (English, verb)
expansion: retrench (third-person singular simple present retrenches, present participle retrenching, simple past and past participle retrenched)
Senses:
glosses: To cut down or reduce.
tags: transitive
glosses: To cut down or reduce.
To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
tags: specifically
transitive
glosses: To confine; to limit; to restrict.
tags: transitive
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
tags: transitive
glosses: To abridge; to curtail.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To take up a new defensive position.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To live less expensively; to economize.
tags: intransitive
Forms:
form: retrenches
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retrenching
tags: participle
present
form: retrenched
tags: participle
past
form: retrenched
tags: past