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

• 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。
• Fiscal retrenchment is becoming self-defeating.
  财政紧缩正在弄巧成拙。
• 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 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。
• Any good done by deficit spending can be lost to retrenchment by private employers.
  赤字支出带来的任何好处，都可能被私营企业的紧缩所抵消。
• 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。
• Retrenchment will be necessary.
  有必要进行紧缩。
• The risk of inadequate action and premature retrenchment is greatest in the eurozone.
  在欧元区，措施力度不够和过早收紧政策的危险是最大的。
• But when France, Spain and Italy all contract their fiscal positions at the same time, in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland, the result is a co-ordinated fiscal retrenchment of the eurozone.
  但是当法国、西班牙和意大利也加入希腊、葡萄牙和爱尔兰的行列，同时收缩财政立场的时候，就会造成欧元区协同财政紧缩的结果。