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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But pretty soon the theory of fiscal retrenchment will be translated into real political pain.
  但财政紧缩的理论，将很快转化为实实在在的政治阵痛。
• In Europe, fiscal retrenchment is under way after intense market pressures.
  由于市场压力巨大，欧洲正在实施财政紧缩。
• 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。
• Some, like Greece, need immediate fiscal retrenchment.
  有些国家，如希腊，需要立即实行财政紧缩。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。