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

• 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。
• 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。
• US consumers are in the early stages of a multi-year retrenchment as they cut debt and rebuild retirement saving.
  随着美国消费者削减债务并重建退休储蓄，他们刚刚步入会历时多年的紧缩开支之旅。
• Fiscal retrenchment, they intoned, would not alone repair the public finances of eurozone countries.
  他们动情地表示，仅靠财政紧缩无法修复欧元区国家的公共财政。
• 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。
• 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。
• And, as European countries embrace austerity budgets – cutting public spending sharply and raising taxes to reduce heavy public borrowing – there is the added risk that too much fiscal retrenchment could snuff out the tentative economic recovery.
  欧洲国家开始收紧预算（大幅削减公共开支和增加税收，以减少巨额公共借贷），也带来了额外的风险：过度的财政紧缩可能会扼杀暂时的经济复苏。
• 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。
• Any good done by deficit spending can be lost to retrenchment by private employers.
  赤字支出带来的任何好处，都可能被私营企业的紧缩所抵消。
• That means massive private retrenchment, with corporations particularly frugal at the moment.
  这意味着私人部门大规模缩减开支，而企业眼下尤为节俭。