0 present participle of retrench --
1 If governments, companies, etc. retrench, they start spending less money, or reducing costs: --
Economic pressures forced three years of retrenching.
The church is now retrenching after its period of high growth and hundreds of units have been decommissioned since 1998.
Like many other industries, farmers are retrenching.
How will the selling-off process be a developing process if the private sector that he is relying on is in fact retrenching and not developing?
It was driven by households retrenching and building up their savings as boom and bust destroyed confidence.
I think we can all notice that the life of luxury is extending rather than retrenching.
We are heading for a shortage of milk and a retrenching agricultural industry.
It is a pity that throughout the world at the moment everyone is retrenching on aid to developing countries.
