Crossword-Solution: RETRENCH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retrench | v. t. | To cut off; to pare away. |
| Retrench | v. t. | To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses. |
| Retrench | v. t. | To confine; to limit; to restrict. |
| Retrench | v. t. | To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions. |
| Retrench | v. i. | To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETRENCH | anagram | TRENCHER |
We have 14 clues for the answer “RETRENCH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cut back on costs | 1 answer |
| Cut back on expenses | 1 answer |
| Cut down; abridge | 1 answer |
| make a reduction, as in one's workforce | 1 answer |
| reduce expenditure, cut back | 1 answer |
| Reduce the number of employees in a company | 2 answers |
| Cut back on expenditure | 3 answers |
| Make cutbacks | 3 answers |
| Economise | 10 answers |
| Downsize | 11 answers |
| Economize | 11 answers |
| Cut (down) | 37 answers |
| Curtail | 40 answers |
| Cut Back | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RETRENCH (5)
And if we retrench the sleeve of the robe, as it is styled by their writers, the long and narrow province of Africa, the solid and compact dominion from Fargana to Aden, from Tarsus to Surat, will spread on every side to the measure of four or five months of the march of a caravan.
That is to say, in the language of current economic theory, while men are reluctant to retrench their expenditures in any direction, they are more reluctant to retrench in some directions than in others; so that while any accustomed consumption is reluctantly given up, there are certain lines of consumption which are given up with relatively extreme reluctance.
VII Cleft like the fated house in twain, One half is, Arm! and one, Retrench! Gambetta’s word on dull MacMahon: ‘The cow that sees a passing train’: So spies she Russian, German, French.
But this thy glory shall be soon retrench'd; No more shalt thou by oracling abuse The Gentiles; henceforth Oracles are ceast, And thou no more with Pomp and Sacrifice Shalt be enquir'd at Delphos or elsewhere, At least in vain, for they shall find thee mute.
Some stand up for the honor of the race, and are clear that the old establishment should be kept up in all its state, whatever may be the cost; others, who are more prudent and considerate, entreat the old gentleman to retrench his expenses and to put his whole system of housekeeping on a more moderate footing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1970–2016).