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Retrench Common

Retrench has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

tighten one's belt; use resources carefully

2

make a reduction, as in one's workforce

"The company had to retrench"

3

To cut down or reduce.

4

To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.

See Also
reduce curtail fortification furnish retrenchment take up abridge retrenches
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
conserve reduce
Rhyming Words
inch unch conch bench lynch sinch lunch minch rench winch tench runch kench hunch hench sench cinch hinch punch dench
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