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retrenchment

[ri-trench-muhnt] / rɪˈtrɛntʃ mənt /










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India's IT services sector - the country's largest graduate employer with eight million workers - is in active retrenchment.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

The retrenchment from Amazon is part of a broader move by Saks to pare back its businesses as it restructures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

A history of solid gains in December should also provide support, particularly given the market’s notable November retrenchment.

From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025

With the retrenchment of pandemic-era work-from-home arrangements, remote work is harder to find and more desirable than ever.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2025

I have not spent my time studying the problem of “race”—“race” itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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