Definition of retrenched:
(v) :
(transitive) To cut down or reduce.
(v) :
(transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
(v) :
(transitive) To confine; to limit; to restrict.
(v) :
(intransitive) To abridge; to curtail.
(v) :
(intransitive) To live less expensively; to economize.
(v) :
(intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.