Usually means: Reduction or limitation of something.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. curtailment: Merriam-Webster
  2. curtailment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curtailment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. curtailment: Vocabulary.com
  5. Curtailment, curtailment: Wordnik
  6. curtailment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. curtailment: Wiktionary
  8. curtailment: Dictionary.com
  9. curtailment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Curtailment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Curtailment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. curtailment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. curtailment: Rhymezone
  14. Curtailment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. curtailment: FreeDictionary.org
  16. curtailment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. curtailment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Curtailment: Investopedia
  2. curtailment: Legal dictionary
  3. Curtailment: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curtailment: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (curtailment)

▸ noun:  The act of curtailing.

Similar:
retrenchment, suppression, downsizing, curtailing, decurtation, abridgment, succision, cropping, retrenching, abridgement, more...

Opposite:
expansion, enlargement, proliferation

Types:
reduction, downturn, slash, cutback, drop, decrease, more...

Adjectives:
drastic, sharp, severe, serious, further, such, considerable, general, substantial, voluntary, sudden

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Similar:
retrenchment, suppression, downsizing, curtailing, decurtation, abridgment, succision, cropping, retrenching, abridgement, more...

Opposite:
expansion, enlargement, proliferation

Types:
reduction, downturn, slash, cutback, drop, decrease, more...

Adjectives:
drastic, sharp, severe, serious, further, such, considerable, general, substantial, voluntary, sudden

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     charcoal,     maroon, more...



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