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▸ verb:  (transitive) To cut down or reduce.
▸ verb:  (transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To confine; to limit; to restrict.
▸ verb:  (transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To abridge; to curtail.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To live less expensively; to economize.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.




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