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CURTAILMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
Synonyms:
curtailment; downsizing; retrenchment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("curtailment" is a kind of...):
economy; saving (an act of economizing; reduction in cost)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
Example:
a suppression of the newspaper
Synonyms:
curtailment; suppression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("curtailment" is a kind of...):
restraint (the act of controlling by restraining someone or something)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The temporal property of being cut short
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("curtailment" is a kind of...):
shortness (the property of being of short temporal extent)
Derivation:
curtail (terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent)
