retrench

vt. 紧缩, 减少, 删除 vi. 削减费用

发音

UK /ɹɪˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/
AU
US /ɹəˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/

词形变化

retrenches 三单 retrenching 现在分词 retrenched 过去式 retrenched 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To cut down or reduce.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To cut down or reduce.

    To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To confine; to limit; to restrict.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).

    及物 政治 军事

    to retrench bastions

  5. 5.

    To abridge; to curtail.

    不及物
  6. 6.

    To take up a new defensive position.

    不及物

    We must retrench and try to hold on long enough for products in development to reach the market or we will be out of business.

  7. 7.

    To live less expensively; to economize.

    不及物
  8. 1.

    To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.

    及物

词汇关系

动词

上位词 10

husband cut reduce trim conserve bring down cut back cut down economise economize

词源

From Old French retranchier (“to get rid of, remove”) (modern French retrancher (“to cut out, take away; to cut off; to cut down”)), from re- (“again”) + tranchier, trenchier (“to cut”) (modern French trancher (“to slice”)); further etymology uncertain, but possibly either from Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“cut in three parts”) (from the root trini from trēs (“three”), based on the model of duplicāre (“to double by dividing, split in two, tear”)), or from an alteration of Latin truncāre (“to maim by cutting off pieces; to truncate”), also possibly influenced by Gaulish *trincare (“to cut (the head)”). Compare English trench.

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