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1. The temporal property of being cut short
    
2. The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
   "a curtailment of the newspaper";
   - suppression
    
3. The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
   - retrenchment, downsizing

Derived forms: curtailments

Type of: economy, restraint, saving, shortness

Encyclopedia: Curtailment