Some sentence examples which use the word 'retrench'
Management has retrenched the expences by removing half of the workers.
He did not like to depend on statesmen's promises, which are proverbially uncertain of fulfilment; he as little liked to retrench; and he was wearied of parliament, where he had never given any but silent votes.
Yet there are circumstances recorded in them which the author has not been able to persuade himself to retrench or cancel.