0 If governments, companies, etc. retrench, they start spending less money, or reducing costs: --
1 if governments, companies, etc. retrench, they start spending less money, or reducing costs: --
2 to remove a worker from their job as a way of reducing costs: --
With the level of unemployment already so high, the thought of approximately 10,000 workers being retrenched is difficult to bear.
The church is now retrenching after its period of high growth and hundreds of units have been decommissioned since 1998.
A few days later the government retrenched the planned nuclear phaseout after the industry pushed for reconsideration.
Like many other industries, farmers are retrenching.
The grounds alleged are that the company refused to reinstate 93 men retrenched last year or to discuss with the union the company's estimate of men surplus to requirements.
I think we can all notice that the life of luxury is extending rather than retrenching.
In 1923, provision was made that any men who were retrenched were due for compensation, and in every case they were looked after.
I say that whatever services are retrenched, this service should not be retrenched.
We are heading for a shortage of milk and a retrenching agricultural industry.
