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the policy of spending less money; a deliberate reduction of costs 裁员: 少花钱的政策;故意降低成本a period of retrenchment 开支紧缩时期
- [uncountable, countable] (Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English)
the situation when somebody has to leave their job because there is no more work available for them synonym redundancy (1)(因劳动力过剩而造成的)裁员,解雇 The retrenchments are with effect from 1 August this year. 裁员将于今年8月1日生效。