CURTAILMENT

retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing

(noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

suppression, curtailment

(noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; “a suppression of the newspaper”

curtailment

(noun) the temporal property of being cut short

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

curtailment (plural curtailments)

The act of curtailing

Source: Wiktionary


Cur*tail"ment (kr-tl"ment), n.

Definition: The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. Bancroft.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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