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

• 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。
• 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。
• They may hope that retrenchment now will spur on private spending.
  他们或许希望，现在实施紧缩政策能刺激私人部门增加支出。
• Conventional wisdom is that fiscal retrenchment will lead to resurgent investment and growth.
  传统观念认为，财政紧缩会推动投资和经济增长的复苏。
• 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。
• Or will such a zealous embrace of fiscal retrenchment tip the economy back into recession?
  或者，如此狂热地奉行财政紧缩，是否会把英国经济重新推入衰退？
• 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。
• The private sector must heal. That, not fiscal retrenchment, is the priority.
  私人部门必须恢复正常&这才是当务之急，而不是削减财政开支。
• 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。
• Retrenchment will be necessary.
  有必要进行紧缩。