What is "retrenchment" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "retrenchment": entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense

Noun

Meaning of "retrenchment": the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

Noun

Synonyms:

drop, sag, dislocation, crisis, bankruptcy, bust, downturn, panic, stagnation, crash, slump, failure, inflation, inactivity, recession, slide, slowness, unemployment, stagflation, overproduction, deflation, paralysis, bear market, bad times, big trouble, bottom out, hard times, rainy days, decline, cut, alleviation, decay, cutback, deduction, abatement, curtailment, decrease, contraction, weakening, recession, layoff, decrease, parsimony, meanness, reduction, cutback, providence, regulation, discretion, thriftiness, thrift, direction, abridgement, restraint, prudence, carefulness, curtailment, austerity, care, husbandry, supervision, deduction, moratorium, shrinkage, caution, stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness, rollback, parcity, scrimping, skimping, sparingness, loss, shortfall, inadequacy, reduction, dearth, paucity, absence, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, distress, privation, defect, decrease, want, meagerness, shrinking, stint, shrinkage, depletion, deficit, abridgement, exigency, destitution, inferiority, insufficiency, curtailment, necessity, miss, default, deprivation, scantiness, slightness, shortness, exiguity, insufficience, backlash, right, relapse, regression, backsliding, withdrawal, retrogression, retreat, right wing, status quo, counterrevolution, obscurantism, Toryism, abbreviation, reduction, curtailment, contraction, depreciation, diminution, extenuation, attenuation, declination, regression, diminuendo, layoff, decrease, parsimony, deduction, shrinkage, meanness, regulation, cutback, providence, reduction, discretion, thrift, frugality, direction, abridgement, restraint, prudence, carefulness, curtailment, austerity, care, husbandry, supervision, recession, moratorium, caution, stinginess, miserliness, rollback, niggardliness, parcity, scrimping, skimping, sparingness,

Antonyms:

increase, calm, success, cheerfulness, encouragement, happiness, hope, surge, bulge, protuberance, rise, hopefulness, recovery, convexity, improvement, increase, raise, enlargement, expansion, rise, development, growth, addition, enlargement, expansion, increase, raise, carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness, extravagance, disregard, imprudence, negligence, addition, spending, neglect, squandering, success, enough, plenty, sufficiency, abundance, affluence, advantage, perfection, enlargement, expansion, increase, extra, plethora, profusion, surplus, excess, addition, lot, cause, question, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, increase, enlargement, expansion, increase, raise, generosity, carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness, extravagance, disregard, imprudence, negligence, addition, spending, neglect,