Retrenchment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETRENCHMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• cutting down on; reduction in amount of
• the reduction of costs or spending in response to economic difficulty
• the action of making an employee redundant
• reduction in the extent or quantity of something
• The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing.
• A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation.
• entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense
• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• reduction, curtailment; a cutting of expenses

Words related to RETRENCHMENT

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Words that contain RETRENCHMENT

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How to use RETRENCHMENT in a sentence

• But the feudal family would not hear of retrenchment, and the baron himself had become more extravagant in his habits.
• Nevertheless, decided retrenchment would be necessary.
• It was an example to me, and I fancy it might be to many others, to see how immediately Miss Matty set about the retrenchment she knew to be right under her altered circumstances.
• The retrenchment, therefore, must be in the case of useless expenses.
• Judge Pendleton, on the other hand, stressed the need of retrenchment.
• Retrenchment alone could not have sufficed for the accumulation of so much idle capital, and for so extensive an expenditure on works of public utility.
• Her complaints of his prodigality meant as little as her menace of retrenchment, and nobody comprehended this better than he.
• Riggs’s bright and confident faith lifted up all our hearts bowed down as they were by discouragement in view of the vast work to be accomplished and the retrenchment in funds.
• There can not be any further retrenchment of the Indian work if it lives at all.
• The usual addresses were carried in both houses, though not without signs of opposition to ministers on the subjects of reform and retrenchment.
• The system of retrenchment proposed was by no means satisfactory to Messrs.
• Ministers, they said, had not adhered to their promises of retrenchment in framing the estimates, especially in regard to the pensions.
• The statement was received favourably, but a general impression existed that the chancellor might have carried retrenchment much farther.
• Cobden made a series of resolutions, pledging the house to retrenchment.
• A cry for reform and retrenchment was raised, and found a champion in the person of the Duke of Gloucester, the youngest of the king’s uncles.
• Each Christian vessel, by the retrenchment of its peak, enjoyed an advantage over its antagonist in the freer play of its artillery.
• Business must again enter upon a period of retrenchment, for it has completed another cycle.
• John was smoking a cigar in an arbour near the house when his heir unfolded to him these plans for retrenchment.
• The measures of retrenchment in each bureau and branch of the service exhibit a diligent economy worthy of commendation.
• These startling facts clearly illustrate the necessity of retrenchment in all branches of the public service.
• Apart from retrenchment, Atkinson had to rely upon the Opposition in forcing his financial measures through against the Free Traders amongst his own following.
• Malignity and envy will carve much more deeply, and finish much more sharply, in the work of retrenchment, than frugality and providence.
• This mode of retrenchment, indeed, has already been pushed further than circumstances have warranted.
• The movement for the reform of the civil service began in 1867-68, in the 39th and 40th Congresses in investigations and reports of a Joint Committee on Retrenchment.

Similar words containing TRENCHM without suffix ent and without prefix re

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