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View synonyms for curtailment

curtailment

[ ker-teyl-muhnt ]

noun

  1. the act of cutting something short or cutting it back; reduction:

    Constant curtailment of postal service has inconvenienced every citizen.



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  • non·cur·tail·ment noun

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Example Sentences

The mayor-elect turned serious when asked how the appointment jibed with his call for the curtailment of stop-and-frisk.

Osama bin Laden may be dead but the extraordinary government powers and curtailment of civil liberties enacted after 9/11 remain.

A big man, who wishes to do you honour formally, would consent to no such curtailment.

Anything resembling cant or the curtailment of mental liberty roused only his resentment and irony.

I think most weeds that get a late start show this curtailment of stalk, and this solicitude to reproduce themselves.

We further recommend curtailment of vessel operator discretion in pursuing, or approaching, whales.

The preceding considerations hold good not alone of increased facilities, but of their curtailment as well.

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