Curtailment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Curtailment \Cur*tail"ment\ (k?r-t?l"ment), n.
     The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. --Bancroft.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  curtailment
       n 1: the temporal property of being cut short
       2: the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing
          from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the
          newspaper" [syn: {suppression}]
       3: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial
          stable [syn: {retrenchment}, {downsizing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "curtailment":
     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