Associations to the word «Curtailment»

Wiktionary

CURTAILMENT, noun. The act of curtailing

Dictionary definition

CURTAILMENT, noun. The temporal property of being cut short.
CURTAILMENT, noun. The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper".
CURTAILMENT, noun. The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras