Retrenchment vs Retreat - What's the difference?
retrenchment | retreat |
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).
The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
* Shakespeare
The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
* L'Estrange
* Dryden
A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
A period of meditation, prayer or study.
Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
A signal for a military withdrawal.
A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
A military ceremony to lower the flag.
(chess) The move of a piece from a threatened position.
As nouns the difference between retrenchment and retreat
is that retrenchment is a reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers while retreat is the act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.As a verb retreat is
to withdraw military forces.retrenchment
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(wikipedia retrenchment)Noun
(en noun)retreat
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Noun
(en noun)- In a retreat he outruns any lackey.
- He built his son a house of pleasure, and spared no cost to make a delicious retreat .
- That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat / From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat.