retrenchment

retrenchment englannista suomeksi

1. vallitus

2. säästötoimi

1. leikkaus

retrenchment englanniksi

1. A curtailment or reduction.

(synonyms)

2. (quote-journal)

3. An act of reducing expenses; economizing.

4. (RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)

5. An act of terminating the employment of a worker or making an employee redundant, often to reduce expenses; a layoff.

6. Withdrawal.

7. (quote-book)

8. 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.

9. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) George Sawbridge,(nb...)|year=1712|volume=II|page=243|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5iFCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA243|oclc=642343210|passage=The ''Half-Moon'' is a Work always raiſed before the Baſtion's Point, being ſo named from the Lowneſs of its Gorges Cavity, &c. and is to ſecure the Two Faces of the Baſtion; but when the Faces have but a weak Defence from the ''Ravelin'', theſe Works are ſoon made uſeleſs or ruined, and give the Beſieged an opportunity of Lodgment, and may ſerve for Batteries and Flanks againſt the oppoſing Baſtions; however they may be retrenched by Traverſes, yet they will not fail to attack entirely in the Face, or where you have your laſt Retrenchment, alſo that called the Counterguard runs the like Hazard.

10. (quote-book)|chapter=Part II. Of the Defence.|title=The Attack and Defence of Fortify’d Places.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) J. Millan,(nb...)|year=1747|page=186|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xyoAI2OsExoC&pg=PA186|oclc=990827509|passage=If there is one Retrenchment in a Work, it is generally thought ſufficient; but it happens much oftener than there is none at all; ſo that one might be apt to think, a Defence like that we have been explaining is only chimerical, if the Sieges of ''Vienna'' and ''Candy'', both by the ''Turks'', were not inſtances of the contrary, where there was hardly an inch of Ground either within or without thoſe two Towns, as far as the Extremities of the Glacis, and even beyond them, but what was retrenched and countermined.

11. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) (w),(nb...)|year=1778|volume=II, 1st section|oclc=1051490067|passage=The gate-way of the north ſide, from whence the garriſon got their water, was near the (smallcaps) angle, and about 80 yards from the river; on the ſide of which, oppoſite to the gate, they threw up a retrenchment, in which they kept a guard to protect the water-carriers.

12. The adoption of a defensive and hostile posture; refusal to compromise, radicalization.

13. (quote-book)|entry=''The Passion of Christ'' Controversy|editor=Eric Michael Mazur|title=Encyclopedia of Religion and Film|isbn=9780313330728|page=352|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m3oLA1ThOBYC&pg=PA352|text=Retrenchment—on the left and the right—led to exclusivist, mutually recriminating positions on the film that made reasoned debate almost impossible, as opponents drowned each other out with competing narratives of “victimization” and “pariah” status.