retrenchment

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A curtailment or reduction.

   “It agrees that redundant services should not be continued but is not unmindful of the fact that too much retrenchment of rail services now may ultimately prove detrimental to the economy of the country.”

2. isim An act of reducing expenses; economizing.

   “Must my anxious management, my prudent retrenchments, dear Margaretta's savings, all go!”

3. isim An act of terminating the employment of a worker or making an employee redundant, often to reduce expenses; a layoff.
4. isim Withdrawal.

   “If it is allowed, however, that the theatre of cosmic evolution is endowed with some fixed structure, even a very weak one, then there is a retrenchment from the programme of an evolutionary account of every general law.”

5. isim A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible by allowing defenders to retreat into and fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work.

   “The gate-way of the north ſide, from whence the garriſon got their water, was near the n. w. angle, and about 80 yards from the river; on the ſide of which, oppoſite to the gate, they threw up a retrenchment, in which they kept a guard to protect the water-carriers.”

6. isim The adoption of a defensive and hostile posture; refusal to compromise, radicalization.

   “Confronted by their practices again and again, these individuals and organizations in the gay community have made token gestures to appease the demands of people of color, while in the long run these confrontations have resulted in retrenchment of attitudes and stereotypes by gay whites.”