retrenchment

Example Sentences

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India's IT services sector - the country's largest graduate employer with eight million workers - is in active retrenchment.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

"We fear it shall be passed down to workers through restructuring, short‑time work and possible retrenchment," Justice Chinhema, secretary of the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union, said.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

But given trade tensions and America’s retrenchment from the world, Doshi said, “that seems very tenuous.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 15, 2025

With the retrenchment of pandemic-era work-from-home arrangements, remote work is harder to find and more desirable than ever.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2025

I have not spent my time studying the problem of “race”—“race” itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates