adjective
- firmly established and difficult to change or remove
- protected by trenches or defensive positions
Usage: military
Examples
- The company’s entrenched policies made innovation difficult.
- His entrenched beliefs about education were hard to challenge.
- Corruption had become entrenched in the political system.
- The soldiers were entrenched along the hillside.
- Entrenched interests opposed the new regulations.
- Her entrenched habits of procrastination hurt her grades.
- The enemy forces were deeply entrenched in the valley.