retrench
/rɪˈtrentʃ/verb
no obj.
1- (of a company, government, or individual) reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty（公司、政府或个人）削减费用, 削减开支：
as a result of the recession the company retrenched
受经济衰退的影响公司削减了开支
with obj. if people are forced to retrench their expenditure trade will suffer.如果人们被迫削减开支, 贸易会受到影响。
1.1
- with obj. chiefly Austral. make (an employee) redundant〈主澳〉解雇（雇员）, 裁减：
if there are excess staff they should be retrenched.
如果超员, 就应该裁员。
1.2
- with obj. formal reduce or diminish (something) in extent or quantity〈正式〉削减, 减少：
fortune had retrenched her once abundant gifts.
命运使她不如以前多才多艺。
派生词
retrenchment
noun词源
late 16th cent. (in the now formal usage)： from obsolete French retrencher, variant of retrancher, from re- (expressing reversal) + trancher 'to cut, slice'.