0 past simple and past participle of retrench --
1 If governments, companies, etc. retrench, they start spending less money, or reducing costs: --
In the past decade, banking services have retrenched out of rural areas.
The capital balance today, including special loans for earlier projects abandoned or retrenched, is now over £80 million.
The number of officials to be retrenched will not exceed five or six.
The undertakings have naturally retrenched their expenses and thus achieved very considerable economies, as a set off against the loss of traffic.
Obviously, too, many proficient and excellent officers and many gallant and trustworthy men will have to be retrenched.
This study has shown that after controlling for needs, public-sector care provision retrenched and the percentage of the oldest age group that received informal care increased.
Staff were retrenched or seconded for military duty, and army movements and stock requisitions ran roughshod over quarantines.
Since 1992, the government has retrenched over 80,000 employees.
