CURTAILMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curtailment mean? 

• CURTAILMENT (noun)
  The noun CURTAILMENT has 3 senses:

1. the temporal property of being cut short

2. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

3. the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

  Familiarity information: CURTAILMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURTAILMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

curtailment; suppression

Context example:

a suppression of the newspaper

Hypernyms ("curtailment" is a kind of...):

restraint (the act of controlling by restraining someone or something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

curtailment; downsizing; retrenchment

Hypernyms ("curtailment" is a kind of...):

economy; saving (an act of economizing; reduction in cost)