All retrenchment synonyms

noun retrenchment

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• hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
• niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
• bottom out — If a trend such as a fall in prices bottoms out, it stops getting worse or decreasing, and remains at a particular level or amount.
• diminishment — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• diminuendo — a gradual reduction of force or loudness.
• diminution — the act, fact, or process of diminishing; lessening; reduction.
• hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• insufficience — Obsolete form of insufficiency.
• economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
• deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
• economising — to practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance.
• economizing — to practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance.
• counter-revolution — A counter-revolution is a revolution that is intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.
• exiguity — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
• miserliness — of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
• contraction — When a woman who is about to give birth has contractions, she experiences a very strong, painful tightening of the muscles of her womb.
• obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
• counterrevolution — A counterrevolution is a revolution that is intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.