curtailment as a noun: - 1
- 2
- 3
curtailment
noun
1 curtailment
The temporal property of being cut short.
2 curtailment
The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation.
synonym: suppression.
3 curtailment
The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable.
synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment.
Roget 38:
subtraction,
subduction†;
deduction,
retrenchment;
removal,
withdrawal;
ablation,
sublation†;
abstraction
etc.
(taking)
789;
garbling,
etc.
v..
mutilation,
detruncation†;
amputation;
abscission,
excision,
recision;
curtailment
etc.
201;
minuend,
subtrahend;
decrease
etc.
36;
abrasion.
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Roget 201:
shortness
etc.
adj.;
brevity;
littleness
etc.
193;
a span.
shortening
etc.
v.;
abbreviation,
abbreviature†;
abridgment,
concision,
retrenchment,
curtailment,
decurtation†;
reduction
etc.
(contraction)
195;
epitome
etc.
(compendium)
596.
elision,
ellipsis;
conciseness
etc.
(in style)
572.
abridger,
epitomist†,
epitomizer†.
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Moby thesaurus: abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, apocope, arrest, arrestation, astriction, astringency, attrition, bereavement, bottleneck, cervix, check, cheeseparing, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, conspectus, constraint, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, cut, cutback, cutting, deceleration, decrease, decrement, depletion, depreciation, deprivation, deprivement, derogation, detraction, diminuendo, diminution, dip, disburdening, disburdenment, disentitlement, disparagement, divestment, economization, economizing, elision, ellipsis, epitome, extraction, foreshortening, hindrance, hourglass, hourglass figure, impairment, inhibition, injunction, interdict, isthmus, knitting, legal restraint, lessening, low growth rate, monopoly, narrow place, narrowing, neck, precis, privation, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, puckering, pullback, pursing, rationing, recap, recapitulation, reduction, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, rein, relieving, remission, restraint, restraint of trade, retardation, retraction, retrenchment, rollback, saving, scraping, scrimping, self-control, shortening, shrinkage, skimping, slowdown, slowing down, solidification, sparing, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, summary, summation, syncope, synopsis, systole, tariff wall, telescoping, thought control, truncation, wasp waist, wrinkling ... show more.
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