curtailment

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Noun curtailment has 3 senses

curtailment - the temporal property of being cut short
--₁ is a kind of shortness

Derived form: verb curtail₂
suppression, curtailment - the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
--₂ is a kind of restraint
retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing - the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable
--₃ is a kind of economy, saving

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