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retrenchment
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???t??n(t)?m(?)nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???t??n(t)?m(?)nt/, [?i-]
- Hyphenation: re?trench?ment
Etymology 1
Probably partly from both of the following:
- Middle French retrenchement, retranchement (“removal of a portion from a larger whole; reduction of expenses”) (modern French retranchement (“deduction, subtraction”)), from retrancher, retranchier (“to get rid of, remove completely; to remove a portion from a larger whole; to reduce expenses; to deprive (oneself) of”) [and other forms] + -ment (suffix forming nouns usually of an action or a state resulting from an action). Retrancher and retranchier are derived from Old French re- (prefix meaning ‘again, once more’) + tranchier, trenchier (“to cut”) [and other forms] (modern French trancher (“to slice”)); the further etymology is uncertain, but one possibility is that the Old French words are from Latin trunc?re, the present active infinitive of trunc? (“to mutilate by cutting off pieces; to truncate”), from truncus (“tree trunk; piece cut off”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *twer?- (“to carve; to cut off, trim”).
- retrench (“to cut down, reduce; to reduce expenses; to make (an employee) redundant”) +? -ment. Retrench is derived from Middle French retrancher, retranchier: see above.
Noun
retrenchment (countable and uncountable, plural retrenchments)
- A curtailment or reduction.
- Synonyms: cutting down, diminution, lessening
- (specifically) An act of reducing expenses; economizing.
- Synonym: cutback
- (specifically) An act of terminating the employment of a worker or making an employee redundant, often to reduce expenses; a layoff.
Usage notes
Sense 1.2 (“act of terminating the employment of a worker”) is common in countries like Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa, but uncommon in Britain and the United States.
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably either from:
- Middle French retranchement (“defensive work”) (modern French retranchement (“entrenchment”)), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again, once more’) + tranche (“trench”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns usually of an action or a state resulting from an action); or
- retrench (“to construct one or more retrenchments; to protect using retrenchments; to fortify”) +? -ment. Retrench is probably derived from Middle French retrancher, retranchier (“to fortify with trenches and banks”), from Old French re- + tranchier, trenchier (“to cut”); see further at etymology 1.
Noun
retrenchment (plural retrenchments)
- (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.
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References
Further reading
- layoff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- retrenchment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- retrenchment (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- retrenchment (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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dismissal
English
Etymology
From dismiss +? -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): [d?s?m?s??], [d?z?m?s??]
Noun
dismissal (countable and uncountable, plural dismissals)
- The act of sending someone away.
- Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
- A written or spoken statement of such an act.
- Release from confinement; liberation.
- Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
- (law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
- (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
- (Christianity) The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service
Derived terms
- letter of dismissal
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