Both Uses of
retrench
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Loyal to the highest constituted power in the land, actuated by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be the strict maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws…†
Chpt 17
- P. for Cork City), the programme of peace, retrenchment and reform of William Ewart Gladstone (M.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(retrench) to pause and then change how something is done -- often while reducing the use of resources