How do you pronounce retrench?

retrench is pronounced as /rɪˈtrɛntʃ/.

💸retrench

verb

/rɪˈtrɛntʃ/

to reduce costs, spending, or staff to save resources

The company had to retrench employees due to financial difficulties.

cut back, downsize, economize, reduce, curtail

expand, increase, grow

retrench employees, retrench costs, retrench operations, retrench spending

to propel something with force through the air by a movement of the arm

to strike or push something with great force

To make clothes or fabric by interlocking loops of yarn with needles.

To make less severe, serious, or painful; to lessen the severity of damage or harm.

To seize something quickly and firmly.

to secretly plan with others to do something harmful or illegal