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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the temporal property of being cut short;

2. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation;
- Example: "a suppression of the newspaper"
[syn: suppression, curtailment]

3. the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable;
[syn: retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, curtailment]
    3: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially
       stable [syn: retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing]