Crossword clues for curtailment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curtailment \Cur*tail"ment\ (k?r-t?l"ment), n.
The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
--Bancroft.
Wiktionary
n. The act of curtailing
WordNet
n. the temporal property of being cut short
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" [syn: suppression]
the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable [syn: retrenchment, downsizing]
Usage examples of "curtailment".
We should point out that any further curtailment of imports taking 1942 and 1943 together can only be made through a definite curtailment of our munitions output.
Therefore Bakunin repudiates the State as synonymous with the surrender of the liberty of the individual or small minorities,--the destruction of social relationship, the curtailment, or complete denial even, of life itself, for its own aggrandizement.
Some of our nicknames are curtailments, like Margie or Margo for Margaret.
They be idolaters, worshipers of Baal, and so suffer certain restraints and curtailments of privilege under the law.
Travel curtailments and restrictions 48 on electricity became commonplace, and were used by gov ernments to keep their people under control and make dissent, if not impossible, then at least more difficult than in the earlier days of easy travel and free speech.
I for one hope that it may also ease some curtailments of rights and privacy enacted by those who give our status as a nation at war greater weight than our status as a democracy with a Bill of Rights and certain protections.
As change accelerates and complexities multiply, we can expect to see further extensions of the principle of disposability, further curtailment of man's relationships with things.
Because your alternative is such a drastic curtailment of Japanese exports into the United States that you'll think you're back in wartime.