Hypertext Webster Gateway: "curtailment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Curtailment \Cur*tail"ment\ (k?r-t?l"ment), n.
The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. --Bancroft.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
curtailment
n 1: the temporal property of being cut short
2: the act of suppressing [syn: {suppression}]
3: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial
stable [syn: {retrenchment}, {downsizing}]
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