Definitions for curtailment

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

cur•tail*kərˈteɪl(v.t.)

  1. to cut short or cut off a part of; abridge; reduce.

* Syn: See shorten.

Origin of curtail:

1425–75; late ME: to restrict (of royal succession or inheritance), prob. a conflation of MF courtau(l)d (see curtal ) and ME taillen to cut < OF taillier (see tail2)

cur•tail′ment(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. curtailment(noun)

    the temporal property of being cut short

  2. suppression, curtailment(noun)

    the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

    "a suppression of the newspaper"

  3. retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing(noun)

    the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

Wiktionary

  1. curtailment(Noun)

    The act of curtailing

Webster Dictionary

  1. Curtailment(noun)

    the act or result of curtailing or cutting off


Translations for curtailment

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

curtailment(noun)

make less, shorter etc (than was originally intended)

I've had to curtail my visit.

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