adjective
- firmly established and difficult to change or remove
Usage: often used to describe attitudes, beliefs, or systems
Examples
- The company’s intrenched policies made innovation nearly impossible.
- His intrenched beliefs about education were hard to challenge.
- The intrenched power structure resisted all attempts at reform.
- Years of tradition had created intrenched habits in the organization.
- The intrenched corruption in the system was difficult to eliminate.
- She found herself fighting against intrenched prejudices in the workplace.