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Word | Retrench |
make a reduction, as in one's workforce; The company had to retrench / make a reduction, as in one''s workforce / To cause or suffer retrenchment / cut down; economize / (of a company, government, or individual) reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty. / to change the way things are done in order to spend less money, | |
Usage | ⇒ Management has retrenched the expences by removing half of the workers ⇒ If they were to be able to send their children to college, they would have to retrench. ⇒ When the economy slowed, the company was forced to retrench. ⇒ as a result of the recession the company retrenched |
Synonyms | curtail, reduce, lessen, cut back, cut down, decrease, diminish, bate, economize, shorten, slash, abridge, cut, deduct, remove, save, detract, dock, foreshorten, pare, |
Antonyms | add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, multiply, widen, accelerate, accent, accentuate, add together, adjoin, append, ask, bestow, boom, boost, |
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