Thesaurus / retrench
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- delete
- reduce
- confine
- shorten
- omit
- lessen
- diminish
- decrease
- remove
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- abridge
- limit
- save
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Now cities such as Portland, considered among the most ambitious in moving to reshape its police force, have retrenched.
ANARCHISTS AND AN INCREASE IN VIOLENT CRIME HIJACK PORTLAND’S SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTSCOTT WILSONMAY 31, 2021WASHINGTON POSTTim PetersonPublishers are going to be wringing more out of what they already haveAfter a few years of exploring ways to diversify revenue, publishers are going to spend the first half of the year retrenching around what works.
MEDIA BRIEFING: THE MEDIA INDUSTRY’S TOP TRENDS AT THE MOMENTTIM PETERSONJANUARY 28, 2021DIGIDAYAfter briefly retrenching at the beginning of the pandemic, home sales soared.
EXPERTS PREDICT WHAT THE 2021 HOUSING MARKET WILL BRINGKATHY ORTONJANUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIndeed, in Europe, the company has retrenched its third-party data targeting product offering.
TIKTOK’S UNUSUAL SPINOFF: 4 OUTSTANDING ADVERTISER CONCERNSLARA O'REILLYSEPTEMBER 22, 2020DIGIDAYHe pleases me very much by saying that he finds not a sentence that he can retrench in the first volume of "The Mill."
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. II (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTIf the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant it is his character to be so; and if I retrench it he is no longer Ovid.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 57, NO. 354, APRIL 1845VARIOUSOne of the hardest words a missionary can get from his Home Board is the word "retrench."
HOW I KNOW GOD ANSWERS PRAYERROSALIND GOFORTHCharles really wished to retrench his expenses; but Mrs. Germaine's pride was an insuperable obstacle to all his plans of economy.
TALES AND NOVELS, VOLUME 2 (OF 10)MARIA EDGEWORTHHow could it be that a man who had so much wit, had not enough to retrench these egregious faults?
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 10 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)Why retrench from the Natural History of Man the history of his noblest part?
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY, VOLUME III (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE BUFFONSYNONYM OF THE DAY
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