retrenchment
Meaning of retrenchment
noun
A curtailment or reduction.
noun
A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible by allowing defenders to retreat into and fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work.
Information about retrenchment
- It is a name.
- The plural form of retrenchment is: retrenchments.
- Languages in which retrenchment is used:
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Hyphenation of retrenchment
re-trench-ment
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- retrenchment is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
retrenchment synonyms
Meaning curtailment:
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