"retrench : (transitive) To cut down or reduce. (transitive, specifically) To terminate the..."

“retrench : (transitive) To cut down or reduce.
(transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
(transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
(intransitive) To abridge; to curtail.
(intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.”

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/retrench

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