Usually means: Cutting back expenses or activities.
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  1. retrenching: Merriam-Webster
  2. retrenching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retrenching: Vocabulary.com
  4. retrenching: Wordnik
  5. retrenching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retrenching: Wiktionary
  7. Retrenching, retrenching: Dictionary.com
  8. Retrenching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Retrenching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. retrenching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. retrenching: FreeDictionary.org
  12. retrenching: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrenching: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of one who retrenches.

Similar:
retrenchment, retreating, curtailment, retraict, recesser, shrinking, recess, retractive, backdown, abridgment, more...

Opposite:
expanding, growing, increasing

Types:
downsizing, right-sizing, restructuring, reorganizing, streamlining, belt-tightening, more...

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Similar:
retrenchment, retreating, curtailment, retraict, recesser, shrinking, recess, retractive, backdown, abridgment, more...

Opposite:
expanding, growing, increasing

Types:
downsizing, right-sizing, restructuring, reorganizing, streamlining, belt-tightening, more...



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