retrenched

Generally, when women workers are retrenched, families get to lose one of their income earners.

一般上，妇女被裁，家庭少了一个收入来源；

Prices have dropped in many parts of the country, sales have dried up and construction has fallen sharply as developers have retrenched.

全国许多地方的价格已经下降，销售趋于枯竭，随着开发商开始收缩，建设规模大幅跳水。

In the US, consumers have retrenched, housing starts have crashed and a double-dip recession is possible.

在美国，消费者已紧缩支出，同时新屋开工数大幅下降。美国很可能会陷入双底衰退。

Even if you were retrenched, explain openly the reason but stressed on all you have accomplished for the company.

甚至，即使你不幸被裁员了，那么也请坦然地说清原因，并着重说明自己为公司所作出的成绩。

In the past year or two correspondent banking has come back into fashion as many western banks have retrenched to cut costs and eliminate less profitable activities, leaving only a handful of groups with a genuinely global reach.

在过去一两年，代理银行业务再次流行起来，因为许多西方银行紧缩开支，削减盈利能力不强的业务，只有少数几家银行集团才真正保留全球业务。

His solution landed the housing market in the worst of all worlds: their managements knew that if the blank cheques were filled out they would lose their jobs, so they retrenched and made mortgages more expensive and less available.

他的解决方案在最坏的情况下抵达房地产市场：那些管理者知道，如果空白支票填好，他们就会丢掉饭碗，因此他们收紧信贷，提高抵押贷款成本，减少抵押贷款供应。

They retrenched by eliminating half of the workers.

他们藉剔除一半的工作人员来节约开支.

They retrenched by eliminating half the workers.

他们把人员减半以减少支出.