Retrenchment in a sentence as a noun

Aside from the reduced wages bill, a round of retrenchment will probably not do wonders for them.

Insolvency can only be dealt with by liquidation and retrenchment on one hand, and bankruptcy on the other.

There are much more significant instances of Soviet retrenchment and retreat during this period.

I suspect that, in general, homosexuals had better prepare themselves for some retrenchment.

The only thing violence, vandalism and theft "accomplish" is further retrenchment of police power.

I ended up spending my retrenchment money travelling - I'm from Australia, and I always wanted to travel coast-to-coast across the US. I spent three months doing it, and had a total about about three crappy days.

Not pouring trillions into the ME or elsewhere anymore means retrenchment and surrendering hegemony.

Spices were a very late addition to the european pallatte, and the timeline give for their retrenchment would put them at a very small proportion of the timeline of historical europe.

The cause/effect relationship between the Internet and this cultural retrenchment is unclear but IMO, almost certainly bidirectional.

It could be the Grails project manager arranged a backroom deal between VMWare and OCI for transfer of the Grails consultants, with the retrenchment being a smokescreen to ditch the Groovy maintenance programmers -- I wouldn't put something like that past them based on their past behavior.

Because this discussion is dominated by bad-faith types whose axe to grind is really that there's a movement against their favorite flavors of supremacism and they generally use arguments like the one you're putting forth as retrenchment now that the tide has turned against them.

Some are likely to be very bad; one thing recently remarked on is that VCs are pulling back sharply from funding biomedical ventures, right now due to uncertainty, but things like the medical device tax are a component of that, and of well documented existing company retrenchment.

Others have claimed it's simply intelligence: back when the Internet was all educated nerds, support for free speech was higher because of the well-known correlation between intelligence and free speech absolutism[1].In addition to the Eternal September effect, I think the broader retrenchment of liberalism we see across the world is very relevant.

Retrenchment definitions

noun

entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense

noun

the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

See also: curtailment downsizing