retrenchment

英 [rɪˈtrentʃmənt]

美 [rɪˈtrentʃmənt]

n.  (开支的)紧缩，削减

复数：retrenchments　

GRE医学

BNC.21676 / COCA.22631

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR （开支的）紧缩，削减
  Retrenchmentmeans spending less money.
  1. Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
     国防规划人员预计开支紧缩期会延长。
  2. ...a need for industrial retrenchment and restructuring.
     工业紧缩开支和改组的需要

英英释义

noun

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
  Synonym:curtailmentdownsizing
• entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense

双语例句

• Under pressure, Ireland has also imposed fiscal retrenchment.
  在压力下，爱尔兰也实施了财政紧缩。
• Retrenchment not expansion is now the policy of most companies.
  削减而不扩张是现在大多数公司的方针。
• One particular fear haunting the G20 is that an implosion in Eastern Europe infects Austrian, Swedish, Italian and Belgian banks with bad loans, providing a downward spiral of losses, retrenchment and economic contraction.
  笼罩g20的一个特别担忧，就是东欧内爆使得奥地利、瑞典、意大利和比利时的银行背上了不良贷款，从而形成了亏损、缩减开支和经济萎缩的下行螺旋。
• The risk of inadequate action and premature retrenchment is greatest in the eurozone.
  在欧元区，措施力度不够和过早收紧政策的危险是最大的。
• By committing to the largest fiscal retrenchment in living memory the coalition has gone for broke.
  通过承诺实施当代人记忆中最大规模的财政紧缩，英国联合政府已经孤注一掷。
• Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
  国防规划人员预计开支紧缩期会延长。
• Us recessions are driven by the retrenchment of the corporate sector in response to shocks.
  美国衰退的推动因素是企业部门为应对冲击而缩减成本。
• That is the lesson, they say, from past fiscal retrenchment.
  他们称，这是从以往的财政紧缩中汲取的教训。
• Thus the temporary rise in fiscal deficits helps protect the economy from the forced private retrenchment.
  因此，财政赤字的暂时增长有助于避免经济陷入不得已的私营部门紧缩。
• This twin retrenchment represents a huge drag on the economy that spills into other sectors.
  这个孪生节省的表明了一个巨大的对经济的拖动滑入了其他部分。