We both realise that we must learn to retrench at once.

But I must retrench at every point, and then I don't see how I'm to get along.

He will, doubtless, think a good while, and retrench at a good many points, before he orders an other discontinuance.

It was for this latter reason perhaps that she was obliged to retrench at other points and accept a temporary home under her brother's roof.

The IMF also says spending cuts are more painful when every country is retrenching at the same time, as now.

I am not very good at retrenching at a company and am apt to hang on longer than I should, which really is unwise.