English-French translations for retrenchment

• réduction
  Une réduction continuelle des forces de police alors que les frontières disparaissent de plus en plus est contreproductive et pas uniquement dans ce domaine. Continual retrenchment in police services at the same time as borders are being eliminated is counterproductive, and not only in this area.

Definition of retrenchment

• A curtailment or reduction
• A defensive work#Noun|work construct#Verb|constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible by allowing defenders to retreat#Verb|retreat into and fight#Verb|fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work

Related words

• retreat
• retread
• retrench
• pretreat
• pretreated
• retreading
• urètre
• retreat giver
• beat a retreat