1.节省,减省,削减,缩减,减少(经费等);删除,省略(字句等);截去,割去,修剪
2.【建】设内郭,筑内墙
3.俭约,节省
1.to reduce costs or the amount that you spend, in order to save money
2.to stop employing someone because there is no more work for them
1.In the US, consumers have retrenched, housing starts have crashed and a double-dip recession is possible.
在美国，消费者已紧缩支出，同时新屋开工数大幅下降。美国很可能会陷入双底衰退。
2.The latter were largely the result of the crisis: governments let fiscal deficits rise, as the private sector savagely retrenched.
如此高的赤字主要是由危机所致：由于私人部门厉行节约，政府就让财政赤字增长。
3.Even if you were retrenched, explain openly the reason but stressed on all you have accomplished for the company.
甚至，即使你不幸被裁员了，那么也请坦然地说清原因，并着重说明自己为公司所作出的成绩。
4.Worn-out consumers battered by job losses, shrinking nest eggs have retrenched, throwing the economy into a tailspin.
失业、储蓄减少，消费者们因为受到这些打击，不得不节约开支，经济也因此陷入了困境。
5.The U. S. economy expanded less than economists forecast in the second quarter as shoppers retrenched.
第二季度，因消费疲软，美国经济增速低于经济学家的预期。
6.Bond insurers, who used to cover roughly half of the market, have retrenched or gone bust after making bad mortgage bets.
过去保险几乎一半市场的债券保险公司在经历错误的抵押贷款赌注后已经削减或破产。
7.They got retrenched and out of jobs, as they were the ones responsible for their company's death.
许多经理人走进了死胡同，只采取紧缩和裁员措施，他们应对公司的倒闭负责。
8.Then came the crisis : overextended private sectors retrenched .
随后爆发了金融危机：过度扩张的私人部门大举紧缩。
9.The last chapter was retrenched from the book.
书中最后一章被删掉。
10.He sudenly have a terrifying feeling that he will be retrenched by the company due to the bad economy.
他突然有种恐惧感，觉得自己会因为公司经济不景气而被公司裁员