retrench
retrench
verb
retrenchment
noun
语源
verb
- [no obj.](of a company, government, or individual) reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty
（公司、政府或个人）削减费用，削减开支
as a result of the recession the company retrenched.
受经济衰退的影响公司削减开支。
[with obj.]if people are forced to retrench their expenditure trade will suffer.
如果人们被迫削减开支，贸易会受到影响。
■[with obj.](chiefly Austral.)make (an employee) redundant
(主澳)解雇（雇员)，裁减
if there are excess staff they should be retrenched.
如果超员，就应该裁员。
■[with obj.](formal)reduce or diminish (something) in extent or quantity
(正式)削减，减少
fortune had retrenched her once abundant gifts.
命运使她不如以前多才多艺。
retrenchment
noun
语源
- late 16th cent. (in the now formal usage): from obsolete French retrencher, variant of retrancher, from re- (expressing reversal) + trancher 'to cut, slice'
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