Retrenchment vs Curtail - What's the difference?
retrenchment | curtail |
A reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers.
(military, dated) 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).
(obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
(figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
* Macaulay
As nouns the difference between retrenchment and curtail
is that retrenchment is a reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers while curtail is a scroll termination, as of a step, etc.As a verb curtail is
to cut short the tail of an animal.retrenchment
English
(wikipedia retrenchment)Noun
(en noun)curtail
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Verb
(en verb)- ''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
- When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
- Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
- Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.