retrench

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Retrench, retrench in your dress, in your tables, in your speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

Retrench, rē-trensh′, v.t. to cut off or away: to render less: to curtail.—v.i. to live at less expense: to economise.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Why, it is only an hour since I read a cablegram in the newspapers beginning "Russia Proposes to Retrench."

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark

Cleft like the fated house in twain, One half is, Arm! and one, Retrench!

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

Retrench," responded the amiable daughter, scornfully, "don't preach economy to me.

From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Babcock, Retta