curtailment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the temporal property of being cut short
  2. noun the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
    suppression.
    • a suppression of the newspaper
  3. noun the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
    downsizing; retrenchment.

WordNet


Cur*tail"ment noun
Definitions
  1. The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. Bancroft.

Webster 1913