retrench

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To cut down or reduce.

   “Madam me no Madam, but learn to retrench your vvords; and ſay Mam; as yes Mam, and no Mam, as other Ladies VVomen do. Madam! 'tis a year in pronouncing.”

2. fiil To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.

   “This section prescribes that an employer shall ordinarily retrench the workman who was the last person to be employed in that category, unless for reasons to be recorded in writing, the employer retrenches any other workman.”

3. fiil To confine; to limit; to restrict.

   “They say of God—That He spreadeth forth the heavens as a tent to dwell in; and that as a garment, some time hence, He shall roll them together. These figures, ought they then to receive a retrenched interpretation? Ought they to be denuded of their oriental garb? Not so, […]”

4. fiil To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).

   “to retrench bastions”

5. fiil To abridge; to curtail.

   “But this thy glory ſhall be ſoon retrench'd; / No more ſhalt thou by oracling abuſe / The Gentiles; henceforth Oracles are ceaſt, / And thou no more with Pomp and Sacrifice / Shalt by enquir'd at Delphos or elſewhere, / At leaſt in vain, for they ſhall find thee mute.”

6. fiil To take up a new defensive position.

   “We must retrench and try to hold on long enough for products in development to reach the market or we will be out of business.”

7. fiil To live less expensively; to economize.
8. fiil To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.