retrench

Etymology 1
From (modern 🇨🇬), from  +,  (modern 🇨🇬); further etymology uncertain, but possibly either from  (from the root  from , based on the model of ), or from an alteration of , also possibly influenced by. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To cut down or reduce.
 * 2)  To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
 * 3)  To confine; to limit; to restrict.
 * 4)  To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
 * 5)  To abridge; to curtail.
 * 6)  To take up a new defensive position.
 * 7)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To confine; to limit; to restrict.
 * 2)  To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
 * 3)  To abridge; to curtail.
 * 4)  To take up a new defensive position.
 * 5)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To abridge; to curtail.
 * 2)  To take up a new defensive position.
 * 3)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To abridge; to curtail.
 * 2)  To take up a new defensive position.
 * 3)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To take up a new defensive position.
 * 2)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To live less expensively; to economize.
 * 1)  To live less expensively; to economize.

Etymology 2
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Verb

 * 1)  To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.