Entrenched

Definitions: Entrenched

Entrenched

Adjective

1. Dug in.

2. Established firmly and securely; "the entrenched power of the nobility".

Date "entrenched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)

Crosswords: Entrenched

English words defined with "entrenched": brassbound ♦ entrenchment ♦ intrenchment, ironclad. (references)

Specialty definitions using "entrenched": constitutionally entrenched ♦ JavaScript ♦ UN*X. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Battle of Batoche British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Metis (reference) Business Blindspots: Replacing Your Company's Entrenched and Outdated Myths, Beliefs and Assumptions With the Realities of Today's Markets (reference) The Battle of Batoche : British small warfare and the entrenched Métis (reference) The Hoser files : the fight against entrenched official corruption (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Soil profile in entrenched stream channel.Credit: Unknown.		Recovering riparian area within an entrenched channel.Credit: Unknown.
	Supplies arrive in Solomons. Landing barges bring in fresh supplies from freighters at Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, where U.S. Army and Marine forces are now firmly entrenched.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Some major US corporations are well entrenched in the South African market, with the UK, Italy and Germany as third country competitors. (references)
		Research International typifies New Zealanders as "negotiators", i.e. sophisticated consumers with complex requirements for products and entrenched consumer habits. (references)
		Industry analysts expect that the Korean spare part manufacturers will be next in line because of the tremendous growth in sales of Korean cars. Hyundai, Kia and Daewoo are already well entrenched in the Saudi vehicle market. (references)
Children	Vietnam	According to the World Bank, despite growth in incomes over the past decade, severe malnutrition remains an entrenched problem; approximately 45 percent of children under 5 years of age suffer from stunted growth. (references)
	Burkina Faso	Persons with disabilities who are willing and able to work frequently find it difficult to find employment, including in government service, because of deeply entrenched social attitudes which hold that persons with disabilities should be under the care of their family and should not enter the workforce. (references)
Discrimination	Yemen	Entrenched cultural attitudes often affect women's ability to enjoy equal rights. (references)
Economic History	Senegal	For years, Senegal had two flour mills, with entrenched French interests. (references)
	Bolivia	However, entrenched interests continue to resist the implementation of many reforms. (references)
	Australia	Stock brokerage and other financial services and information is now well entrenched on the Internet. (references)
Minorities	Japan	Despite improvements in legal safeguards against discrimination, Korean permanent residents (most of whom were born, raised, and educated in Japan) still were subject to various forms of deeply entrenched societal discrimination. (references)
	Japan	The Burakumin (descendants of feudal era "outcasts" who practiced "unclean" professions such as butchering and undertaking), although not subject to governmental discrimination, frequently are victims of entrenched societal discrimination, including restricted access to housing and employment opportunities. (references)
Political Economy	Gambia	The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is widespread and entrenched. (references)
Political Rights	Algeria	The strong prerogatives of the executive branch, supported by the entrenched power of the military and the bureaucracy, prevent citizens from exercising this right. (references)
Women	Nepal	However, according to a police official, this type of directive is difficult to enforce because of entrenched discriminatory attitudes. (references)
	Zimbabwe	Despite legal prohibitions, women still are vulnerable to entrenched customary practices, including the practice of pledging a young woman to marriage with a partner not of her choosing and the custom of forcing a widow to marry her late husband's brother. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Entrenched" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 59.66% of the time. "Entrenched" is used about 233 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	59.66%	139	26,913
Lexical Verb (past participle)	31.33%	73	39,105
Lexical Verb (past tense)	9.01%	21	76,261
Total	100.00%	233	N/A

Expressions using "entrenched": constitutionally entrenched ♦ entrenched habits. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "entrenched": well-entrenched.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "entrenched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i ngulitur (implanting, ingrained). (various references)

Bulgarian		укрепен (fortified). (various references)

Chinese		确立. (various references)

Czech		zakopaný, zakořenìný (deep rooted, deep-seated, ingrained, inveterate), zabarikádovaný, opevnìný (fortified). (various references)

Danish		tunneldal (entrenched valley, strath). (various references)

Dutch		ingesneden vallei (entrenched valley). (various references)

Finnish		syvälaakso (entrenched valley). (various references)

French		vallée encaissée (entrenched valley), intégré � la constitution (constitutionally entrenched), garanti par la constitution (constitutionally entrenched). (various references)

German		verschanzte. (various references)

Greek		εγκυβωτισμένη κοιλάδα (entrenched valley), εγκυτωμένη κοιλάδα (entrenched valley). (various references)

Hungarian		körülárkolt. (various references)

Indonesian		membudaya (be entrenched). (various references)

Italian		trincerato. (various references)

Pig Latin		entrencheday

Portuguese		entrincheirar (dig in, ditch, Mount), impregnado (deep rooted, impregnate, impregnated, ingrained, saturated), arraigado (deep rooted, double-dyed, ingrain, ingrained, rooted). (various references)

Russian		укоренившийся (deep rooted, deep-seated, established, ingrain, ingrained). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		utvrđen (established, fortified, hard and fast, set, stated). (various references)

Spanish		atrincherado. (various references)

Swedish		tunneldal (entrenched valley, strath). (various references)

Turkish		yerleşik (based, prescriptive, sedentary, settled, situate, situated, stationary), sabit (attached, changeless, constant, established, fast, firm, fixed, flat, flat-footed, immobile, immovable, immutable, indelible, invariable, irremovable, permanent, put, real, rigid, set, settled, stable, staid, standing, staring, static, stationary, steadfast, steady, substantive, unwavering), değişmez (changeless, constant, equable, fast, fixed, flat-footed, frozen, hard and fast, immutable, inalterable, invariable, Pat, permanent, regular, rigid, set, settled, stable, static, steadfast, steady, unalterable, unchangeable, unchanging, unswerving, unvarying, unwavering). (various references)

Ukranian		укріплений траншеями, міцний (abiding, able bodied, bastard, beefy, buirdly, deep, endurable, enduring, fast, firm, full-bodied, lasting, lusty, oaky, racy, sledge hammer, stable, stalwart, staunch, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, tenacious, tough, wakeless, well knit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Entrenched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entenched, entranched, entrenced, entrenche. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "entrenched" (pronounced entre"nkht or entre"nkht)
6	-t r e" n kh t	retrenched.
5	-r e" n kh t	drenched, wrenched.
4	-e" n kh t	clenched.
3	-n kh t	branched, bunched, cinched, clinched, crunched, flinched, hunched, inched, launched, lunched, lynched, munched, pinched, punched, relaunched, scrunched, stanched.
6	-t r e" n kh t	retrenched.
5	-r e" n kh t	drenched, wrenched.
4	-e" n kh t	clenched.
3	-n kh t	branched, bunched, cinched, clinched, crunched, flinched, hunched, inched, launched, lunched, lynched, munched, pinched, punched, relaunched, scrunched, stanched.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-h-n-n-r-t"
	-2 letters: centered, decenter, decentre, entrench, tendence, trenched.
	-3 letters: centner, centred, cheered, credent, entered, erected, retched.
	-4 letters: center, centre, cheder, decent, decern, decree, drench, entree, etched, etcher, eterne, ethene, heeder, hented, needer, nether, recede, recent, rennet, rented, retene, teched, teener, tender, tenner, tenrec, thence, trench.
	-5 letters: ceder, cered, cheer, chert, creed, deter, eched, ender, enter, erect.
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