"curtailment" in the noun sense
1. curtailment
the temporal property of being cut short
2. suppression, curtailment
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
"a suppression of the newspaper"
3. retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing
the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
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