There is a need to prioritize and retrench in order to complete the project on time. From LearnThat.org.
The company had to retrench. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The word retrench has appeared in 15 Times articles over the past year, including in a June 11, 2009 article. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Consumers retrench, standards of living don't go up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2008] Reference
When the affluent retrench, they drag a lot with them. From Wordnik.com. [How the Mighty Have Fallen] Reference
But in our private affairs both families resolved to retrench. From Wordnik.com. [Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside] Reference
You know, you have to retrench their thinking about education. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks At Roundtable Discussion On Equal Pay] Reference
Is there anything else you wish to retrench or alter, gentlemen?. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
I mean, now it's time to retrench, step back, take a deep breath?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Staff Members] Reference
Hopes of a U. S.-led recovery have faded as American consumers retrench. From Wordnik.com. [Waning Economic Recovery Fuels Global Uncertainty] Reference
After Harriet Miers, wouldn't they decide to retrench a little bit here?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2006] Reference
At some point, the regime was going to come back in and retrench in Baghdad. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2003] Reference
When U.S. banks retrench, loans are as hard to get in Bangalore as in Baltimore. From Wordnik.com. [Emerging Markets Are a Must] Reference
"Companies are tending to retrench and reduce their bank borrowing," Mr. Dooks said. From Wordnik.com. [U.K. Firms Pay Down Debt, Highlighting Tight Credit Conditions] Reference
When consumers become less secure in their jobs and finances, they retrench as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan Testifies Before House Financial Services Committee - February 28, 2001] Reference
As lenders retrench, instead of the savings rate going down it is, in fact, going up. From Wordnik.com. [Savings and Moan] Reference
As they retrench, I think you're going to see the possibility of recession out there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2007] Reference
If he can retrench in pains without lessening his gains, be assured that he will do it. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
And if ever we want to retrench a little more from where won't we be able to get money?. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
One of the hardest words a missionary can get from his Home Board is the word "retrench.". From Wordnik.com. [How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time] Reference
But what is it, that I am first to prohibit, what excess retrench to the ancient standard?. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Government must retrench: Of course, the president still says the government must retrench. From Wordnik.com. [Look Who's Being Beastly To The President] Reference
Of course, consumers are going to retrench and they're in an important part of the economy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2007] Reference
Then Japan regained its footing, only to retrench in the aftermath of the 2001 U.S. recession. From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Not-So-Hot Recovery] Reference
But the company received so many angry letters that it was forced to retrench only a week later. From Wordnik.com. [Travel: The New Rules Of Flying] Reference
And if people start seeing those finances go down a little bit, they'll retrench their spending. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2006] Reference
All this Spenglerian gloom points to an inescapable conclusion: America must retrench strategically. From Wordnik.com. [Will Marshall: Hillary Rebuts the Declinists] Reference
Yet reason does not retrench so much from one's food as to refuse nature its necessary support: thus. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Just how much the lenders will retrench is, if not exactly anybody's guess, an opaque and technical subject. From Wordnik.com. [Savings and Moan] Reference
Canary Wharf, whose failure forced Canada's Reichmann family to retrench sharply, emerged from bankruptcy in 1993. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
This predicts that unless you retrench in your expenditure, you will have but a pittance to spend upon your dress. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
The growth of e-commerce (it's thought) will corrode the sales tax and compel state and local governments to retrench. From Wordnik.com. [Why Not Tax The Internet?] Reference
If they won the armistice, they'd be able to retrench and rearm, and the war would break out again within a few years. From Wordnik.com. [In Case of Fire] Reference
Especially shall we require him to adhere to the point he has undertaken to discuss, and to retrench all irrelevancies. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
In like manner right reason does not retrench so much from a man's food as to render him incapable of fulfilling his duty. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Discovering a need to economize, he asks her, "Does it occur to you that there is any one article in which we can retrench?". From Wordnik.com. [Look Who's Being Beastly To The President] Reference
BROOKES: Well, I think the administration's declaratory policy on this in requiring North Korea to retrench on its nuclear program. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2002] Reference
They had lost heavily in the failure of a bank, and were living abroad to retrench, while Mr. Markham pursued his profession in London. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
On all sides an anxiety to retrench was shown, and large numbers, in the aggregate, were thrown out of employment all over the country. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
It is a hardship to the writer to be compelled to retrench the story of the early deeds for liberty of Bonivard and his boon companions. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
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