| 词汇 | retrenched |
| 释义 | retrenched past simple and past participle ofretrench retrench verb uk /rɪˈtrentʃ/ us /rɪˈtrentʃ/ [ I ]formal If governments, companies, etc. retrench, they start spending less money, or reducing costs: 削减费用;紧缩开支 The company had to retrench because of falling orders.由于订单减少，这家公司不得不紧缩开支。 The Government began to retrench on its nuclear programmes. [ T ]Australian English or South African English to remove a worker from his or her job as a way of reducing costs: 裁减工人（以节约成本） The government is to retrench 30,000 public servants in the next three years. An employee you retrenched may be able to bring an unfair dismissal claim. North Carolina is not retrenching on its spending on education. The president had planned to take more lavish offices but was forced to retrench amid criticism from Congress and the public. In 2011 some people were retrenched. A New South Wales cleaning contractor retrenched an employee using a standard retrenchment letter. Economics accommodative anti-economic anti-inflation anti-inflationary anti-recession deindustrialization double-dip gross domestic product HDI human development index industrialism inflation Keynesian liberal monetarism monetary recession retrench stagflation the public purse You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Firing staff Examples of retrenchedretrenched In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Other, less fortunate members of the national elite, found themselves retrenched and sent home to the village. These were the office cleaners and kitchen ladies who had to be retrenched. More public service staff were retrenched and studies to draft rationalisation plans were carried out. The biggest losers comprised the large number of workers, who were retrenched in the early stages of the divestiture. Still, most of the retrenched civil servants were men. In addition, thousands of workers in formal sector industries were retrenched. Such democracies remain unconsolidated, cycling between democratic phases, with unfettered redistribution to the poor, and oligarchy, during which the gains to the poor are retrenched. Since 1992, the government has retrenched over 80,000 employees. Staff were retrenched or seconded for military duty, and army movements and stock requisitions ran roughshod over quarantines. This study has shown that after controlling for needs, public-sector care provision retrenched and the percentage of the oldest age group that received informal care increased. Obviously, too, many proficient and excellent officers and many gallant and trustworthy men will have to be retrenched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The undertakings have naturally retrenched their expenses and thus achieved very considerable economies, as a set off against the loss of traffic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The number of officials to be retrenched will not exceed five or six. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The capital balance today, including special loans for earlier projects abandoned or retrenched, is now over £80 million. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the past decade, banking services have retrenched out of rural areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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