Retrench Mnemonic
Explore definitions and mnemonics for retrench.
retrench
retrench
Examples
- The company is trying to retrench the expenditure.
- The company were able to retrench.
- Other members of the press were retrenched.
- She was a clerk, she got retrenched.
- Mining contractor planned to retrench 657 of its employees, bringing its number of retrenchments this year to 1397.
- He was retrenched in 2003 as a result of the SARS crisis.
- Imperial had to retrench people and Prasad was left jobless.
- The university administration decided not to retrench and enforce pay cuts.
- They will thus required to retrench and make judgment calls based on the 5P.
- Coal starts process to retrench 368 workers starting next week.
tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
verb
make a reduction, as in one's workforce
verb
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"Re + Trench. Pull back soldiers to dig a trench for defense."
"Re + Trench. Cut back to rebuild the trench again."
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