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What is a retrenchment?

What is a retrenchment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers.
  2. (military, dated) A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible (by allowing defenders to retreat into and fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work).
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When our flight was in its fourth month, we heard rumours about retrenchment of the programme.
The directors defended the retrenchment of two expatriate general managers.
The most recent annual figures show evidence of a retrenchment by the non-local developers.
The abandonment of the Neronian legionary fortress at Usk in South Wales in favour of a reoccupation at Gloucester symbolizes the retrenchment.
The thousands of supernumeraries in the Eastern Cape who cost the province R1 billion a year are not facing retrenchment in the immediate future.
Once things slowed down, retrenchment became a serious business just as health care and education expenses began to shoot upwards.

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