Word Finder - entrench

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To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.

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To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.

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The army entrenched its camp, or entrenched itself.

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To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.

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Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.

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To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.

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To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.

A political dynamic is created in which the social floor becomes progressively lower and meaner, while those at the top entrench their position.

What GATS does do, however, is to entrench privatization and make it irreversible, possibly permanent.

No attempt was made to entrench the position systematically, but on the left the 2nd and 3rd Corps made some disconnected shelter trenches and gun-pits, while the 4th Corps in the centre began to improve available cover about an hour before the battle began, and the 6th corps on the right, not yet having received any entrenching tools, could do no more than improvise a few loopholes in the walls of the villages of St Privat and Roncourt with such tools as the sappers could obtain from the inhabitants.

Hood's army, which he was ordered to hold in check in order to give Thomas time to prepare for battle (see American Civil War, § 32), was unable immediately to cross the Harpeth river and was compelled to entrench his forces south of the town until his wagon trains and artillery could be sent over the stream by means of two small bridges.