Usually means: Deeply established, difficult to change.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word entrenchment:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. entrenchment: Merriam-Webster
  2. entrenchment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. entrenchment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. entrenchment: Vocabulary.com
  5. Entrenchment, entrenchment: Wordnik
  6. entrenchment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. entrenchment: Wiktionary
  8. entrenchment: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. entrenchment: Dictionary.com
  10. Entrenchment (fortification), Entrenchment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. entrenchment: Rhymezone
  12. entrenchment: FreeDictionary.org
  13. entrenchment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. entrenchment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. entrenchment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. entrenchment: Glossary of research economics
  2. entrenchment: Legal dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Entrenchment: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (entrenchment)

▸ noun:  The process of entrenching or something which entrenches
▸ noun:  A fortification constructed of trenches

Similar:
intrenchment, entrencher, intrencher, enshrining, entombment, encasement, embedment, implantation, enrobement, imbedment, more...

Opposite:
dislodgment, displacement, uprooting, unseating, removal

Types:
moat, rampart, palisade, bulwark, stockade, redoubt, earthwork, fortification, more...

Adjectives:
constitutional, further, epistemic, last, generative, deep, strong, firm, managerial, circular, ancient

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Similar:
intrenchment, entrencher, intrencher, enshrining, entombment, encasement, embedment, implantation, enrobement, imbedment, more...

Opposite:
dislodgment, displacement, uprooting, unseating, removal

Types:
moat, rampart, palisade, bulwark, stockade, redoubt, earthwork, fortification, more...

Adjectives:
constitutional, further, epistemic, last, generative, deep, strong, firm, managerial, circular, ancient



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