- verb
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- make economies or reduce expenses [Barron]
- to cut out; excise [Taisha]
More word meanings for retrench
from leading online dictionaries:
- Wiktionary:
- retrench @ wiktionary
- WordNet:
- retrench @ wordnet.princeton.edu
- Merriam-Webster Online:
- retrench @ M-W.com
- MSN Encarta:
- retrench @ Encarta
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
- retrench @ AHD provided by Yahoo! Education
- Answers.com:
- retrench @ Answers.com
- Search for more definitions on Google:
- Google define:retrench
- Search for more definitions on Yahoo!:
- Yahoo! define:retrench
- Search for more definitions on Ask.com:
- Ask.com dictionary: retrench