RETRENCHMENT
Retrenchment
Retrenchment is an act of cutting down or reduction, particularly of public expenditure.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Retrenchment
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retrenchment
Noun
- A reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers.
- A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible (by allowing defenders to retreat into and fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work).
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