retrenchment
noun
1 retrenchment
Entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense.
Roget 817: economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness†, retrenchment. savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony ... show more
2 retrenchment
The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable.
synonyms: curtailment, downsizing.
Roget 38: subtraction, subduction†; deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation†; abstraction etc. (taking) 789; garbling, ... show more
Roget 201: shortness etc. adj.; brevity; littleness etc. 193; a span. shortening etc. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature†; abridgment, ... show more
Moby thesaurus: abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, apocope, arrest, arrestation, attrition, check, cheeseparing, compression, condensation, conspectus, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, cut ... show more.
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