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Definition of Curtailment
1. Noun. The temporal property of being cut short.
2. Noun. The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation. "A suppression of the newspaper"
3. Noun. The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable.
Generic synonyms: Economy, Saving
Derivative terms: Retrench, Retrench
Definition of Curtailment
1. n. The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
Definition of Curtailment
1. Noun. The act of curtailing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curtailment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtailment
Literary usage of Curtailment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... which adds nothing to the definiteness of the description. governor of
California, and Peralta renewed hi» application to have the curtailment of his ..."
2. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1902)
"The gradual curtailment of this noble design in which Michael Angelo had hoped
to have realised all his loftiest and grandest conceptions, and the money ..."
3. Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens by Evelyn Abbott (1892)
"The Areopagus—Changes in it caused by Solon and the reforms of Clisthenes—Reasons
for the attack by Ephialtes and Pericles—Ostracism of Cimon—curtailment of ..."
4. Report of the Federal Trade Commission on the News-print Paper Industry by United States Federal Trade Commission (1917)
"curtailment of production. In 1915 the association attempted the curtailment of
the production of those engaged in the manufacture of news-print paper. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"... splendour and expense—and the precedent of curtailment in any such matters is
now seldom neglected. »Sir, To the Editor of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal. ..."
6. The Problem of Asia and Its Effect Upon International Policies by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1905)
"curtailment of obligation, — of responsibility, — actual or contingent, present
or promissory, in direction and in amount, beyond that which is demanded by ..."
7. The Home Missionary by American Home Missionary Society, Congregational Home Missionary Society (1840)
"PROTEST AGAINST curtailment. Early in the last year, our readers were notified
that uniese the missionary revenue were increased, the »canty amount ..."
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