Associations to the word «Curtailment»

Wiktionary

CURTAILMENT, noun. The act of curtailing

Dictionary definition

CURTAILMENT, noun. The temporal property of being cut short.
CURTAILMENT, noun. The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper".
CURTAILMENT, noun. The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke