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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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The company had to retrench.†
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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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He talked about retreating and retrenching in order to regroup.† (source)
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He feared that the Retrenchment Committee would cripple the fair for once and for all.† (source)Retrenchment = a pause and change in how something is done -- often while reducing the use of resources
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North where the enemy had fled and retrenched and waited for spring to launch the final, finishing assault.† (source)retrenched = paused to change how something is done -- often while reducing the use of resources
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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)retrenchment = a pause and change in how something is done -- often while reducing the use of resources
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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)retrench = pause and then change how something is done
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Retrenching expenses.† (source)Retrenching = pausing to change how something is done -- often while reducing the use of resources
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You've retrenched, sir.† (source)retrenched = paused to change how something is done -- often while reducing the use of resources
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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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She had reached a point where abrupt retrenchment was necessary, and the only cheap life was a dull life.† (source)retrenchment = a pause and change in 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)Retrench = pause and then change how something is done
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From the day when he had succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance.† (source)retrenching = pausing to change how something is done -- often while reducing the use of resources
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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)retrenched = paused to change how something is done -- often while reducing the use of resources
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