Sample Sentences forretrench (auto-selected)
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In the face of increasing foreign competition, the company had to retrench, refocus, and rebuild based on its core competencies.retrench = pause and then change how something is done
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I heard about biological and chemical weapons; I heard that Saddam had learned his lesson in Desert Storm and was retrenching the Republican Guard around Baghdad, in the hope of making a bloody last stand. (source)retrenching = pausing to change how something is done -- often while reducing the use of resources
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Retrench, he told himself, as the boys turned heavily and mumbled in their invisible cots and all along the floors around him.† (source)
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North where the enemy had fled and retrenched and waited for spring to launch the final, finishing assault.† (source)
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This is no time to retrench.† (source)
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You've retrenched, sir.† (source)
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Dick dined with Franz and his bride and a small dog with a smell of burning rubber, in their cottage on the edge of the grounds, He felt vaguely oppressed, not by the atmosphere of modest retrenchment, nor by Frau Gregorovius, who might have been prophesied, but by the sudden contracting of horizons to which Franz seemed so reconciled.† (source)
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They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt.† (source)
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He talked about retreating and retrenching in order to regroup.† (source)
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YOUR sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible: and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that—and how little could the utmost of your single management do to stop the ruin which had begun before your marriage?† (source)
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One has to expect retrenchments at a time like this.† (source)
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The retrenchers' report had been too harsh, too much a rebuke, at a time when the mood throughout Chicago was one of sustained exultation at the fact that the fair had gotten built at all and that it had proven more beautiful than anyone had imagined.† (source)
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He feared that the Retrenchment Committee would cripple the fair for once and for all.† (source)
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We ought to retrench, and not let the city council spend another cent. Uh——Don't you think that was a grand paper Mrs. Westlake read about Tolstoy?† (source)
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Retrenching expenses.† (source)
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I told him that though my cargo of tobacco was damaged, yet that it was not quite lost; that the merchant I had been consigned to had so honestly managed for me that I had not wanted, and that I hoped, with frugal management, I should make it hold out till more would come, which I expected by the next fleet; that in the meantime I had retrenched my expenses, and whereas I kept a maid last season, now I lived without; and whereas I had a chamber and a dining-room then on the first floor, as he knew, I now had but one room, two pair of stairs, and the like.† (source)
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