Curtailment
[kɝ'telmənt]
Definition
(n.) The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Abbreviation, abridgment, contraction, shortening, reduction, retrenchment.
Typist: Wesley
Examples
- This derangement does sometimes occur, but the curtailment of the number of labourers is but temporary after all. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But Tarzan tired of it, as he found that kingship meant the curtailment of his liberty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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