Curtailment

//kɚˈteɪlmənt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of curtailing.

    "The railways are fully alive to the position, and are sparing neither effort nor expense to provide more attractive trains and to effect economies, but in such circumstances some curtailment of services is inevitable."

  2. 2
    the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable wordnet
  3. 3
    the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation wordnet
  4. 4
    the temporal property of being cut short wordnet

Etymology

From curtail + -ment.

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