retrench
vi. 緊縮開支
vt. 削減(費用); 節省
If a person or organization retrenches, they spend less money.
Shortly afterwards, cuts in defence spending forced the aerospace industry to retrench.
不久之後,國防開支的削減迫使航空航天業緊縮開支。
1. tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
2. make a reduction, as in one's workforce;
Inflation has forced us to retrench.
因通貨膨脹我們不得不緊縮開支.
They must retrench their expenditure for the purpose of making up the deficit.
為了彌補赤字,他們必須壓縮開支.
It is not a conservative and passive policy, still less a policy to retrench money supply.
它不是保守消極的政策, 更不是收縮貨幣供應.
Fiscal default is nigh, insist the doomsayers: repent and retrench before it is too late.
災難預言者堅持認為,政府違約就在眼前: 趕緊懺悔和縮減開支吧,否則就太晚了.
The company had to retrench.
該公司必須節省開支.