What's the difference between abridge and retrench?
Abridge
Definition:
(v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
(v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
(v. t.) To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two examples are presented from published literature which illustrate some problems encountered with the use of the abridged census method.
(2) This is an abridged version of a paper delivered in Tel Aviv by two American nurses.
(3) Abridged versions of existing inventories are very practical in these instances.
(4) Transgenic embryos harboring an abridged lab gene are able to overcome the embryonic lethality associated with the loss of lab function and survive to adulthood.
(5) Using these alternative, abridged life tables were devised, and these in turn were used to draw up a table showing the life expectancy at birth that would result from realization of each alternative.
(6) He tweets as @SolomonADersso This is an abridged version of Solomon's essay 'This question of African unity - 50 years after the founding of the OAU.'
(7) The abstract, under a multitude of names, such as hypothesis, marginalia, abridgement, extract, digest, précis, resumé, and summary, has a long history, one which is concomitant with advancing scholarship.
(8) Hamburger, entitled 'The Current Point of View of the Theory of Natural Immunity', which is also published in a slightly abridged version in this issue of Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde.
(9) It generalizes the conventional discrete (abridged and complete) life tables into a continuous life table that can produce life-table functions at any age and develops a unified method of life-table construction that simplifies the disparate laborious procedures used in the traditional approach of constructing abridged and complete life tables.
(10) The methodology is designed to determine how departures in sexual orientation and social sex-role are the basis for the abridgment of civil liberties.
(11) An abridged somatization construct (the Somatic Symptom Index) derived from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule's somatization disorder items was tested on community epidemiological samples to examine its prevalence, risk factors, and predictive value.
(12) The results suggest that the DSM-IV somatoform disorders section should include somatization disorder, an abridged definition of somatization disorder often associated with anxiety and depression, as well as a type of somatization associated with an adjustment disorder.
(13) This abridged account of a report to the British Medical Research Council describes a long-term investigation of 1,503 subcapital fractures of the femur, almost all of which were treated by reduction and internal fixation.
(14) This paper is an abridged version of the author's Submarine Medical Officer qualification thesis.
(15) We found that 4.4% of the respondents met criteria for this abridged cutoff score of somatization, whereas only 0.03% of the respondents met criteria for the full DSM-III somatization disorder diagnosis.
(16) The abridged census estimator, also known as Weinberg's shorter method, is a device used to estimate lifetime incidence from the observed age distribution of a population at risk coupled with data on the current prevalence of a mental disorder.
(17) This scale was largely composed of edited and abridged gender items from Part A of Freund et al.
(18) In the US, by contrast, despite having been built out of a distrust of rulers, everything is held to be potentially publishable - as embodied in its First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…").
(19) Lister Hill Center is concerned with developing a computerized information system, with a data base consisting of an expanded Abridged Index Medicus, using part of a large computer system, and connecting this system to the TWX network.
(20) Seven essays in this issue of the Hastings Center Report defend civil disobedience as a legitimate form of protest against terrible injustices: legalized abortion (G. Leber); abridgement of women's reproductive rights (S. Davis); government policy toward persons with AIDS (H. Spiers and A. Novick); abuse of the rights of animals (S. Siegel, C. Jackson, and P. Singer).
Retrench
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off; to pare away.
(v. t.) To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.
(v. t.) To confine; to limit; to restrict.
(v. t.) To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.
(v. i.) To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The axe has fallen again at Australia’s research agency, the CSIRO , with another 75 researchers retrenched across the organisation’s future manufacturing, agriculture and digital productivity programs.
(2) With fiscal retrenchment likely after next year's election, the MPC could well be in this for the long haul.
(3) "My position is that increases the value of our assets," he added, referring to the provision of local content and advertising opportunities as newspaper groups in particular retrench.
(4) And can retrenchment be done in such a way that it is clearly in line with the progressive values of a social democratic party?
(5) In scientific terms, a panel of concluding discussants (Drs Kendell, Torrey, and Waddington) were in some measure of agreement that genetics, particularly molecular genetics, appears to be experiencing a period of retrenchment, while epidemiology is experiencing something of a renaissance.
(6) HSBC has insisted it remains committed to China , even as it continued its retrenchment from insurance by selling off its 15.6% stake in Chinese insurer Ping An for $9.4bn (£5.8bn).
(7) Even at the end of this fourth retrenching year, in this scenario we'd be less than half way there in spending-cuts terms, with 60% of the pain still to come.
(8) It was the suspicion in the markets that a rainbow coalition of the progressive left would break under the strain of pushing through politically unpopular fiscal retrenchment that explained tonight's markets rally.
(9) It undermines confidence and causes consumers to retrench, which actually weakens the economy.
(10) Even if the single currency remains intact some €1.3tn of credit could be sucked out of the system as banks retrench to their home markets, unwinding years of financial integration, the Credit Suisse analysis warns.
(11) "The NUS has retrenched back into the old narrative that there is a hard-left and moderates, and that we have to do everything we can to marginalise them.
(12) At BP he came in to the refining and chemical division after the Texas City fire and masterminded a huge retrenchment with thousands being taken off the oil company's payroll, including those at Grangemouth in Scotland.
(13) Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments Read more I’m talking to Howard Bamsey, who I’ve encountered at many of these events – he was Australia’s lead negotiator in Kyoto in 1997 when the protocol was agreed as well as the special envoy on climate change in Copenhagen in 2009.
(14) "While consumers are increasingly cutting back on their spending out of necessity, but it is also evident that many consumers are also retrenching out of choice, reflecting their heightened concerns about the economy and jobs."
(15) In reviewing the public mental health services of 11 California counties during a period of fiscal retrenchment, we found several common trends: a greater focus on the severely mentally disabled; an increase in utilization of hospital-based care, residential treatment, day treatment, and case management services; and a decrease in the capacity of traditional outpatient services.
(16) This article describes practical steps in managing organizational retrenchment in nursing.
(17) One- and 5-minute Apgar scores were 8 or more in all, and umbilical acid-base values were within normal limits in all of them, though the base deficit in group AD was significantly lower than that in group M. Atropine premedication makes it possible to retrench the ephedrine dosage without any harmful effect on either mother or fetus, and ephedrine infusion makes it easy to cope with changes in maternal blood pressure.
(18) The UK's biggest pay TV provider, buoyed by subscriptions that are still rising in the economic downturn, is in bullish mood, spending money while competitors retrench, as exemplified by its splashy 1980s-style advertising for the drama adaptation of Martina Cole's The Take.
(19) Today, an estimated 1 million public sector workers will walk out in co-ordinated strike action against a retrenchment of workers' rights and a real-terms pay cut that has seen them £2,000 out of pocket since 2010.
(20) My own strong reaction to the novel stemmed from Austen's depiction of society, a world of conspicuous consumption (Sir Walter Elliot cannot stand the idea of retrenching when he mismanages his finances and prefers to leave his house rather than be seen with a footman or a picture less) and his arrogant, good-looking daughter Elizabeth can't be seen without all the props, either.