Simple past tense and past participle of retrench.(verb)
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Use "retrenched" in a sentence
"Interesting term retrenched, does it mean made redundant, fired or something siilar?"
"A cruel tax had been imposed on the corn of the husbandman: one third was retrenched from the salaries of the public officers; and the standard of the coin was so shamefully debased, that of the four-and-twenty parts only five were of pure gold."
"The companies were told to recall retrenched workers and to commit themselves to the miners."