retrench

英 [rɪˈtrentʃ]

美 [rɪˈtrentʃ]

v.  节约; 紧缩开支; 缩减(人员)

现在分词：retrenching　过去式：retrenched　第三人称单数：retrenches　过去分词：retrenched　

GRE

BNC.38606 / COCA.28948

牛津词典

verb

• 节约；紧缩开支
  to spend less money; to reduce costs
• 缩减（人员）
  to tell sb that they cannot continue working for you

柯林斯词典

• VERB 紧缩开支;削减费用
  If a person or organizationretrenches, they spend less money.
  1. Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.
     不久之后，国防开支的削减迫使航空航天业紧缩开支。

英英释义

verb

• make a reduction, as in one's workforce
  1. The company had to retrench
• tighten one's belt

双语例句

• The application of orthogonal experiment can reduce the time of experiment, and shorten the period of experiment, and retrench the expense of experiment and improve the quality of motor design.
  将正交试验法应用于微电机的设计改进，不仅可以减少试验次数，缩短试验周期，而且大大节约了试验经费，提高了电机设计质量。
• Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers: repent and retrench before it is too late.
  灾难预言者坚持认为，政府违约就在眼前：赶紧忏悔和缩减开支吧，否则就太晚了。
• Credit will shrink, businesses will wait to hire and expand, and consumers will further retrench.
  如此一来，信贷将收缩、企业将推迟招聘与扩张、消费者将进一步削减开支。
• We must retrench the administrative structure, strengthen the legal institution construction to provide basic social conditions for the innovation of state-owned enterprise system.
  必须精简政府机构，加强法制建设，为企业制度创新提供基本的社会环境。
• The Function of the Anticipated Likelihood: Expansion or Retrench
  期待可能性的机能：扩张或紧缩
• Why don't you retrench then-scrape up, hoard, economise?
  那么你为什么不节约一下积累一点，储蓄一点，省吃俭用一些呢？
• With the rapid development of Internet and information technology, the information of office platform is one request for the establishing enterprises to improve the office efficiency and retrench the structure.
  随着互联网的出现与迅速发展，信息技术步伐的加快，办公平台信息化是目前企事业单位提高办公效率和机构精简改革趋势的一个要求。
• Assume that many of the latter now retrench.
  假设许多赤字国家现在都开始收缩财政。
• But is it already time to retrench?
  但现在已到了紧缩的时候吗？
• Historically, many firms see the challenges and retrench.
  历史上，许多公司看到挑战后就采取缩减措施。