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UK
/kɜːtˈeɪlmənt/
]
[ US /kɝˈteɪɫmənt/ ]
[ US /kɝˈteɪɫmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
- the temporal property of being cut short
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the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
a suppression of the newspaper
How To Use curtailment In A Sentence
- September 11 th has brought mostly unpleasant changes, including curtailment of civil liberties and threatened perpetual war.
- There are plenty of practical ideas, all curtailments of our liberty, which might indeed now need to be introduced - such as greater powers for the police to arrest suspects for questioning, deportations and possibly internment.
- Meanwhile, the Health Service Executive denied last night recent reports that patients in Kerry will suffer following the curtailment of an angiography service.
- The real show of class warfare is the threatened curtailment of charitable status for private schools and the shrill demand that universities take more state-school pupils.
- I am joylessly a at unsoiled curtailment, but i vestris to halevy rise two petting ago, if wonderfully for cytoarchitectonic hyperborean fluidram. Rational Review
- Civil Liberty: We believe also in protest against the curtailment of our civil rights.
- We welcome expansion of telephone services as improving the general well-being but accept curtailment of postal services as signifying necessary economy.
- Customers are asked by Kerry County Council to please use water sparingly, to check for leaks or wastage in their supply systems, to avoid watering lawns, washing cars etc, and to expect curtailments on the supplies, particularly at night
- A substantial curtailment of the growth of ice would amount to a substantial reduction of the absolute size of the ice crystallites.
- He said the railways was also suffering losses due to curtailment of goods train services as the Ludhiana-Jakhal-Delhi section could take a limited load of passenger and goods trains.