retrenchment

n

1. reduction, reducing, decrease, decreasing, diminution, diminishing, subtracting, sub-duction, subducting, loss, lessening, shortening, contraction, contracting, decline, cutback, rollback, decrement, decrescence, depression, abridgment, abbreviation, shrinkage, shrinking, narrowing, cutting down or short, docking, cropping, clipping, shearing, trimming, pruning, shaving, nipping, concision, constriction, constricting; curtailment, curtailing, limitation, limiting, restriction, restricting, confinement, confining.

2. removal, removing, severance, severing, disseverance, disseverment, disseveration, cleavage, cleaving, cutting off, sawing off, sunderance, sundering, separation, separating, riving, rending, tearing off, hewing, hacking, chopping, obtruncation, detrun-cation, lopping, lopping off; amputation, amputating, dismemberment, dismembering, mutilation, mutilating.

3. economy, economization, economizing, frugality, thrift, thriftiness, prudence, care, stint, meeting of expenses, reduction or reducing of expenses, frugal management, cost cutting, cutting of costs, pinching, penny-pinching, pinching of pennies, Inf. cutting of corners, cost reduction, reduction or reducing of costs, making both ends meet, Inf. keeping one's head above water, Inf. tightening one's belt, conservation, conserving; savingness, saving, scrimping, husbandry, housewifery, hoarding, reserving, laying by, Inf. saving for a rainy day, Sl. socking away.