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- verb Present participle of
retrench .
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Examples
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The auto industry is "retrenching" on ad spending, and "the outlook for retail, financial and telecommunications advertising is negative for the second half of the year," Westerfield says.
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Trent predicted the department would need an extra R1 billion to honour its commitments or take drastic action such as retrenching
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F Bank is "retrenching" but not abandoning the market, company executives say.
San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2010
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Now, after many painful years of "retrenching," the major steel mills in our valley are owned by those two foreign companies.
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Now, after many painful years of "retrenching," the major steel mills in our valley are owned by those two foreign companies.
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Then secondly, looking at financing obviously the capital fin cos have ratcheted back on leasing and subprime, are you guys seeing the banks filling in gaps where the capital fin cos are kind of retrenching from that business.
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Then secondly, looking at financing obviously the capital fin cos have ratcheted back on leasing and subprime, are you guys seeing the banks filling in gaps where the capital fin cos are kind of retrenching from that business.
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"retrenching" on the issue of immigration reform, but their explanation merits comment - their article argues that opponents of reform argue that CIR can't happen during a time of economic downturn for fear
NDN blogs 2008
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More photos and interactive graphics Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif., has grown solidly for most of the past decade but spent much of 2011 retrenching.
Cisco Profit Declines 8%; Sales Show Improvement Ben Worthen 2011
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Businesses, though wary, haven't panicked and triggered a downward spiral of retrenching.
Job Growth Grinds to a Halt Sudeep Reddy 2011
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