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

• Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
  国防规划人员预计开支紧缩期会延长。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Which came first-Private retrenchment or fiscal deficits?
  哪一种情况出现在前是私人部门紧缩还是财政赤字？
• By committing to the largest fiscal retrenchment in living memory the coalition has gone for broke.
  通过承诺实施当代人记忆中最大规模的财政紧缩，英国联合政府已经孤注一掷。
• Thus the temporary rise in fiscal deficits helps protect the economy from the forced private retrenchment.
  因此，财政赤字的暂时增长有助于避免经济陷入不得已的私营部门紧缩。
• But with economies still so weak remember Japan this should not dictate a universal headlong rush to fiscal retrenchment.
  但由于各经济体仍然疲弱还记得日本吧不应强行要求各国统一仓促施行财政紧缩政策。
• Under pressure, Ireland has also imposed fiscal retrenchment.
  在压力下，爱尔兰也实施了财政紧缩。
• Retrenchment will be necessary.
  有必要进行紧缩。