retrenchment

Main Entry:
depression [dih-presh-uhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: economic decline
Synonyms: bad times, bankruptcy, bear market, big trouble, bottom out, bust, crash, crisis, deflation, dislocation, downturn, drop, failure, hard times, inactivity, inflation, overproduction, panic, paralysis, rainy days, recession, retrenchment, sag, slide, slowness, slump, stagflation, stagnation, unemployment
Antonyms: recovery, surge
Main Entry: economy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: saving, frugality
Synonyms: abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness
Antonyms: spending, squandering
Main Entry: lack
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deficiency, need
Synonyms: abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want
Antonyms: abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus
Main Entry: reaction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: political conservativism
Synonyms: Toryism, backlash, backsliding, counterrevolution, obscurantism, regression, relapse, retreat, retrenchment, retrogression, right, right wing, status quo, withdrawal
Main Entry: shortening
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abridgment
Synonyms: abbreviation, contraction, curtailment, reduction, retrenchment
Main Entry: diminishment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lessening
Synonyms: attenuation, declination, depreciation, diminuendo, diminution, extenuation, regression, retrenchment
Antonyms: increase
Main Entry: thriftiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: economy
Synonyms: abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, frugality, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Depression.
Category: 4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:
-nouns
lowering; depression; dip (concavity); abasement; detrusion; reduction., overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation., bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.
-verbs
depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate., overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears., sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline (be horizontal).
-adjectives
depressed; at a low ebb; prostrate (horizontal); detrusive.
-phrases
facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lucan].
Antonyms: elevation
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Economy.
Category: 4. Monetary Relations
Synonyms:
-nouns
economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment., savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony.
-verbs
be economical; practice economy; economize, save; retrench; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way; husband (lay by)., save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.
-adjectives
economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious., underpaid.
-adverbs
sparingly; ne quid nimis.
-phrases
adde parvumparvo magnus acervus erit; magnum est vectigal parsimonia [Latin] [Cicero].
Antonyms: liberality
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