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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, ... show more

Roget 201: shortness etc. adj.; brevity; littleness etc. 193; a span.    shortening etc. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature; abridgment, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, apocope, arrest, arrestation, astriction, astringency, attrition, bereavement, bottleneck, cervix, check, cheeseparing, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure ... show more.

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