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Retrenches
- verb - make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"
- tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
Retributer
- - One who makes retribution.
Retrievals
- noun - (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
- the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
- the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory; "my retrieval of people's names is very poor"
Retrievers
- noun - a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game
Retrieving
- verb - Get back
- get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
- go for and bring back; "retrieve the car from the parking garage"
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;
- run after, pick up, and bring to the master; "train the dog to retrieve"
- takes back
Retrocedes
- unknown - Hand back territory that has been previously ceded.
Retrochoir
- - Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
Retrograde
- adjective - get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- go back over; "retrograde arguments"
- going from better to worse
- move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
Retrogress
- verb - get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
Retrospect
- noun - contemplation of things past; "in retrospect"
- hindsight
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember; "she reviewed her achievements with pride"
- Look back upon an age, event, time etc