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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Curtailment \Cur*tail"ment\ (k?r-t?l"ment), n.
     The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. --Bancroft.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  curtailment
       n 1: the temporal property of being cut short
       2: the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing
          from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the
          newspaper" [syn: {suppression}]
       3: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial
          stable [syn: {retrenchment}, {downsizing}]

From eng-fra [engfra]:

  curtailment
  	[kəːteilmənt]
  	abaissement, réduction
  
  

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