Retrench

Definitions: Retrench

Retrench

Verb

1. Tighten one's belt; use resources carefully.

2. Make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "retrench" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references)

Economy

Verb: be economical; Adjective: practice economy; economize, save; retrench, cut back expenses, cut expenses; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way, pay as you go; husband; (lay by).

Nonaddition Subtraction

Verb: subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Taking

Take from, take away from; disseize; deduct; retrench; (curtail); dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.

Crosswords: Retrench

Economic History

Guyana

As a result, they had to temporarily retrench their workers and close down their offices. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), pakësoj (abate, abridge, curtail, cut down, deflate, degrade, diminish, lessen, lower, narrow, pare, razee, reduce, slacken, understate, vitiate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏حمى بالخنادق, ‏حذف (cancel, cancellation, castrate, delete, edit, elide, elimination, elision, miss out, omission, omit, skip, write off), ‏خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), ‏خندق (chase, dike, ditch, dyke, entrench, escarpment, moat, trench), ‏إقتصد (economize, eke out, manage, save, scrimp, sock away, spare), ‏أزال (abstract, assuage, ax, axe, bulldoze, clear, clear away, declassify, dismantle, dispel, eliminate, enucleate, eviscerate, excise, obliterate, preclude, put aside, relieve, remove, rest, rid, rub, rub out, settle, slip, smooth, stave off, suppress, take away). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съкращавам (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, condense, contract, curtail, cut short, discard, elide, prune, reduce, slash, take off, terminate, truncate), намалявам разходите си, правя икономии. (various references)

Czech

zredukovat (reduce, scale down, trim), omezit (abate, circumscribe, confine, constrict, curb, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, deflate, limit, narrow, prune, restrict, scale down, terminate, trammel), šetřit (save up, set aside, skimp, spin out, stretch). (various references)

Farsi 

مستحکم کردن , کم کردن (Alleviate, Bate, Cut, Deduce, Deduct, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Reduce, Relax, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin, Weaken), قطع کردن (Burst, Cross, Cut, Disconnect, Discontinue, Excise, Hew, Intercept, Leaveoff, Out, Rupture, Stump, Traverse), حذف کردن (Dele, Delete, Eliminate, Expurgate, Omit), ازنوخندق ساختن , دارای سنگرموقتی زیرزمینی کردن . (various references)

Finnish

supistaa kustannuksia (cut down expenses). (various references)

French

retrancher, restreindre (reduce, restrain, restrict), réduire (rebate, reduce), se retrancher, omettre, faire des coupures, faire des économies. (various references)

German

einschränken (confine, cut back, cut down, impinge, limit, moderate, narrow down, pare down, qualify, reduce, restrain, restrict, stint, to retrench, to stint). (various references)

Greek 

περικόπτω (abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut back, cut back on, dock, lop, pare, razee, trim). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקמץ (be miserly, be stingy, economize, scant, scrimp, skimp, stint). (various references)

Hungarian

korlátoz (coerce, confine, limit, localise, localize, restrict, to abridge, to check, to circumscribe, to coerce, to confine, to constrain, to control, to define, to hedge in, to limit, to peg down, to qualify, to restrain, to restrict, to stint, to tie up), csökkent költséget. (various references)

Italian

economizzare (economise, economize, save, skimp). (various references)

Manx

giarrey neose (chop down, draw in, retrenchment). (various references)

Pig Latin

etrenchray

Portuguese

restringir (abridge, astrict, bind, check, confine, contract, Cork, cramp, curb, hedge, inhibit, lie, limit, manage, narrow circumstances, qualify, restrain, restrict, scant, skimp, specialize), reduzir (Bate, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), limitar (abridge, bind, border, bound, cabin, check, circumscribe, condition, confine, contain, cramp, define, dock, gaolbird, hedge, jailbird, limit, narrow, number, put a lid on, qualify, restrict, scant, shorten, specialize, terminate, tie, verge), fazer economias (save), diminuir (abate, abridge, assuage, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dyad, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, mince, minify, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, Whittle), deduzir (abate, abstract, articulate, collect, deduce, derive, educe, elicit, gather, imply, knock out, poke about, recoup), comprimir (astringe, compact, compress, constrict, jam, oppress, pack animal, pinch, press, pump up, screw, squeeze, tighten, tuck, wring), cercear (curtail, restrict, scrimp, skimp), abater (abased, abate, abater, butcher, deject, depress, discount, dishearten, down, fell, knock down, lay, lower, prostrate, rebate, reduce, shoot down, sink, slaughter, tumble down, unman, weaken). (various references)

Romanian

restrânge (bound, confine, constrain, cut, diminish, drop, limit, localise, localize, narrow, narrow down, restrict, restriction), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), suprima (abolish, abrogate, discontinue, eliminate, make an end of, remove, repeal, rid, scotch, supersede, suppress), omite (balk, baulk, forget, jump, leave, neglect, omit, overlook, pretermit), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), face economii (economize, scrape together, scrape up, screw, spare), diminua (adate, decline, decrease, depress, diminish, minimize, mitigate, reduce, take the edge off), întãri cu metereze. (various references)

Russian 

уменьшать (abate, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, lessen, minify, narrow down, reduce, relieve, remit, scale down, shrinks, take off, throttle back), окапываться (dig in, trench about, trench around). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smanjiti troškove, skresati (hurl, hurl out, rap out). (various references)

Spanish

reducir para (tone down, whittle away, whittle down), hacer economías (scrimp), economizar (be miserly, economize, husband, nickel and dime, pinch, scrape, skimp, spare), cercenar (abstrict, circumcise, clip, curtail, lop, shave). (various references)

Swedish

skära ned (pare away). (various references)

Turkish

tasarruf yapmak, siperin iç kısmına hendek yapmak, personel sayısını düşürmek, kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), kısaltmak (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, clip, compress, curtail, cut down, dock, edit, make shorter, prune, reduce, short circuit, shorten, summarize, take up), kırpmak (bat, blink, clip, crop, cut, pare, shave, shear, wink), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off). (various references)

Ukranian 

скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, blue pencil, boil down, cancel, castrate, curtail, cut, lop away, lop off, prune, shorten, shrink), заощаджувати (economize, husband). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "retrench": retrenched, retrenches, retrenching, retrenchment, retrenchments. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Retrench" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: detrunk, petrenko, Redheuch, retrence, retrentch, Revtech. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: trencher.

-2 letters: center, centre, etcher, nether, recent, renter, tenrec, thence, trench.

-3 letters: cheer, chert, enter, erect, ether, hence, rente, retch, tench, terce, terne, there, three, treen.

-4 letters: cent, cere, cete, eche, erne, etch, hent, here, hern, rent, rete, teen, tern, thee, then, tree.

-5 letters: cee, ere, ern, err, eth, hen, her, het, nee, net, nth, rec.

+1 letter: trenchers.

+2 letters: archentera, rechristen, retrenched, retrenches.

+3 letters: archenteron, cherrystone, chronometer, furtherance, orthocenter, rechristens, retrenching, trencherman, trenchermen, unchartered.

+4 letters: archenterons, cherrystones, chromocenter, chronometers, furtherances, inheritrices, interchanger, orthocenters, rechartering, rechristened, retrenchment.

+5 letters: chromocenters, chronometries, countercharge, counterthreat, interchangers, precentorship, rapprochement, rechristening, retrenchments, terpsichorean, thenceforward, thermonuclear.

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