retrench
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To cut down or reduce.
- 2.
(transitive)To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
to retrench bastions
- 4.
(intransitive)To abridge; to curtail.
- 5.
(intransitive)To take up a new defensive position.
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.
- 6.
(intransitive)To live less expensively; to economize.
- 7.
(transitive)To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
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From Old French retranchier (to get rid of, remove) (modern retrancher), from re- (again) + tranchier, trenchier (to cut) (modern trancher to slice); further etymology uncertain, but possibly either from *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 ma…