retrench

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Retrench, retrench in your dress, in your tables, in your speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, it is only an hour since I read a cablegram in the newspapers beginning "Russia Proposes to Retrench."

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark

Retrench, rē-trensh′, v.t. to cut off or away: to render less: to curtail.—v.i. to live at less expense: to economise.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Cleft like the fated house in twain, One half is, Arm! and one, Retrench!

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

"Retrench as much as possible without obscureing the sense."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold