Curtailment - Definition

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]

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