curtailment
3
7.5
- noun
- /kərˈteɪlmənt/
- The recent curtailment of funding for the arts has upset many artists.
- a drastic curtailment
- curtailment of consumption
Examples
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Due to budget cuts, the curtailment of services will affect many residents.
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Budgetary crises in Mexico led to the curtailment of employment-generating government projects in the Highlands.
Academic text (1999) -
For a variety of reasons, certain classes of customers found themselves in curtailment in the summer of 1988 in California.
Academic text (1990) -
Well, there's just this business on the curtailment of rights.
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After this dramatic curtailment, FENASTRAS lost over half of its remaining members.
Academic text (1999) -
At least in the IRS, it led to the curtailment of some of the abuse of power.
Blog text (3) -
The common denominator of all these systems is the curtailment of individual liberty.
Blog text (17) -
But among the latest immigration law changes is a severe curtailment of visas for foreign professional workers, such as doctors.
Academic text (2002) -
Academics have often called for the elimination or curtailment of the use of physical currency in order to reduce tax evasion.
Academic text (2017) -
For legislators and taxpayers, the 3.7 percent savings may be less important than the curtailment of the continued growth of expenditures.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
421
3.2
A decrease in size, amount, degree, or price
312
3.0
A rule or action that limits what you can do
82
2.2
A drop in amount or number
49
3.7
A smaller amount of money or resources that an organization uses to lower costs
11
6.8
A reduction in something harmful or unwanted
8
4.6
A decrease in amount or level, for example moving to a lower job
6
4.1
Becoming thinner or more limited in range
6
3.7
Making something less strong or intense
5
3.5
Making something shorter in length, time or size
5
7.9
A decrease in size, amount, or importance
4
8.1
A cut in spending by a business or government to save money
4
3.8
A decrease in amount, size, or strength
3
6.7
A decrease in size, strength or importance
1
7.3
Making something shorter by cutting off a part
1
7.7
A small reduction in an amount or number
1
4.0
A drop in the number or amount of something
1
6.5
A slow reduction in size or amount done in stages
1
7.9
Making something shorter in length or time
Antonyms
How Reduced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Curtailment comes from an old idea made of curt 'short' and cutting a tail', meaning literally 'to cut the tail' to make something shorter. That's why a curtailment** is a 'reduction' or a cutting short of something.