RETRENCHMENT Synonyms

• the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

• a reduction in quantity or rate

• the system of production and distribution and consumption

• the efficient use of resources

• frugality in the expenditure of money or resources

• an act of economizing; reduction in cost

• prudence in avoiding waste

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• the act of reducing complexity

• an act of economizing; reduction in cost

• recovery or preservation from loss or danger

• the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

• bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

• characterized by thriftiness

• any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers

• extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

• change toward something smaller or lower

• the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• a change downward

• the temporal property of being cut short

• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable