Definitions
1.VerbTo cut down or reduce.
To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
2.VerbTo terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
3.VerbTo confine; to limit; to restrict.
4.VerbTo furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification)."to retrench bastions"
5.VerbTo abridge; to curtail.
6.VerbTo take up a new defensive position."We must retrench and try to hold on long enough for products in development to reach the market or we will be out of business."
7.VerbTo live less expensively; to economize.
8.VerbTo dig or redig a trench where one already exists.