curtailment (noun)
1curtailment — curtail UK US /kɜːˈteɪl/ verb [T] ► to reduce or limit something: »The Federal Reserve raised interest rates slightly to curtail inflation. »The last government severely curtailed trade union rights. curtailment noun [C or U] ► »They will not… …
2curtailment — curtail ► VERB ▪ reduce in extent or quantity. DERIVATIVES curtailment noun. ORIGIN from obsolete curtal «horse with a docked tail», from Latin curtus, influenced by TAIL(Cf. ↑tailless) …
3curtailment — I noun abatement, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, compression, condensation, constriction, contraction, cut back, cutting down, cutting off, declension, decline, decrease, decrescence, depression, deprivation, diminishment, diminution,… …
4curtailment — noun Date: 1794 the act of curtailing ; the state of being curtailed …
5curtailment — noun The act of curtailing …
6curtailment — noun 1. the temporal property of being cut short • Derivationally related forms: ↑curtail • Hypernyms: ↑shortness 2. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation a suppression of the newspaper • Syn:… …
7curtailment — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. decrease, condensation, cutback; see abbreviation 1 , 2 , reduction 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The act or process of decreasing: abatement, cut, cutback, decrease, decrement, diminishment, diminution, drain,… …
8curtail — UK [kɜː(r)ˈteɪl] / US [kɜrˈteɪl] verb [transitive] Word forms curtail : present tense I/you/we/they curtail he/she/it curtails present participle curtailing past tense curtailed past participle curtailed formal to reduce or limit something,… …
9curtail — cur‧tail [kɜːˈteɪl ǁ kɜːr ] verb [transitive] to reduce or limit something: • The Federal Bank s critics in Congress are eager to curtail its power. • Investment plans may be curtailed by high interest rates. * * * curtail UK US /kɜːˈteɪl/ verb… …
10curtail — /kɜˈteɪl / (say ker tayl) verb (t) to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish. {variant (by association with tail1) of obsolete curtal (verb) dock, from French courtault, from court short, from Latin curtus} –curtailer, noun… …
