curtailment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: curtailment	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for curtailment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
curtailment n the temporal property of being cut short the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" Synonym(s): suppression, curtailment the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable Synonym(s): retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Curtailment \Cur*tail"ment\ (k?r-t?l"ment), n. The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. --Bancroft.