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Synonyms for curtailment
cur·tail·ment
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Princeton's WordNet
curtailmentnoun
the temporal property of being cut short
Synonyms:
downsizing, suppression, retrenchmentsuppression, curtailmentnoun
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
"a suppression of the newspaper"
Synonyms:
inhibition, stifling, quelling, downsizing, crushing, retrenchment, suppressionretrenchment, curtailment, downsizingnoun
the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
Synonyms:
downsizing, suppression, retrenchment
Dictionary of English Synonymes
curtailmentnoun
Synonyms:
abbreviation, abridgment, contraction, shortening, reduction, retrenchment
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "curtailment":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2750 | reduction | |
#6994 | limitation | |
#7800 | restriction | |
#9968 | constraint | |
#12650 | suppression | |
#13260 | inhibition | |
#21692 | crushing | |
#36633 | downsizing | |
#37513 | cutout | |
#51207 | stifling | |
#62743 | curtailment | |
#75551 | retrenchment | |
#170741 | quelling |
How to use curtailment in a sentence?
I am seriously thinking about -- not pardoning -- but I am seriously thinking of a curtailment of Blagojevich.
Conditions deteriorated so quickly, there weren't really alternative options. We had to move forward with the curtailment process. We developed an emergency regulation, that resulted in all kinds of surface water users... in the upper part of this watershed having to stop diversions.
If the situation gets bad enough, which no one is saying it will, the curtailment could affect larger blocks and touch ancillary facilities they depend on.
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.
[But]since the curtailment of [this], in addition to bail reform, in my opinion, crime is spiking, and the figures are reflecting that. The curtailment of the question-and-frisk is handcuffing the cops. Politicians give the appearance that they care more about criminals than the cops.
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