CURTAILMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

Synonyms:

curtailment; downsizing; retrenchment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("curtailment" is a kind of...):

economy; saving (an act of economizing; reduction in cost)

Meaning:

The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

Example:

a suppression of the newspaper

Synonyms:

curtailment; suppression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("curtailment" is a kind of...):

restraint (the act of controlling by restraining someone or something)

Meaning:

The temporal property of being cut short

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("curtailment" is a kind of...):

shortness (the property of being of short temporal extent)

Derivation:

curtail (terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent)