Word Meanings - RETRENCHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation. Syn. -- Lessening; curtailment;

Additional info about word: RETRENCHMENT

A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation. Syn. -- Lessening; curtailment; diminution; reduction; abridgment. (more info) 1. The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing. The retrenchment of my expenses will convince you that Walpole.

Related words: (words related to RETRENCHMENT)

• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• GAINPAIN
  Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• GAINSOME
  1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• LESSEN
  To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened. The objection lessens much, and comes to no more than this: there was
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• GAINLY
  Handily; readily; dexterously; advantageously. Dr. H. More.
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• GAINAGE
  The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself. Bouvier.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• CONSTRUCTIVELY
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.