curtailment

curtail | American Dictionary

curtail
verb[ T ]
us/kərˈteɪl/
to reduce or limit something, or to stop something before it is finished:
He had to curtail his speech when time ran out.

curtailment

noun[ U ]us/kərˈteɪl·mənt/

curtail | Business English

curtail
verb[ T ]
uk /kɜːˈteɪl/us
to reduce or limit something:
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates slightly to curtail inflation.
The last government severely curtailed trade union rights.

curtailment

noun[ C or U ]
They will not willingly accept any curtailment of their civil liberties.

Examples of curtail

curtail
Such an approach would be an important step in improving the overall use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and curtailing the development of resistant micro-organisms.
If outlays threaten to exceed the threshold, allotments must be reduced and/or enrollments curtailed unless the cap is expressly overridden by legislative action.
The 1957-59 period witnessed pressures from politicians, students, and labour to curtail military power and excesses.
Economic liberalisation may curtail some forms of grand corruption but others may become easier.
It was curtailed once the money dried up with the phasing out of privatisation and the nation's economic contraction that set in after 1997.
In the absence of partners, older people sometimes found their social networks curtailed.
Faced with this reality, families made the decision to give individual choice priority over social norms and ended up curtailing their fertility.
This productive energy seems to defy any efforts to curtail or constrain it.
Generally, governments are not lacking in the formal powers necessary to curtail the autonomy of insurers.
From the perspective of evolutionary history, schizophrenia would then be a benign trait, neither enhancing nor curtailing survival to reproduction.
Certainly, conditionality and, in places, the restriction of aid flows, have curtailed the resources available to those in state power.
An assertive president is likely to have his formal powers curtailed if she were ever to try to use them.
Participants heard how difficult it is to stop a determined thief, which may have curtailed support for policing and obviation.
In practice, the scope that employees have to bargain is severely curtailed by the nature of the labour market.
The state's authoritarian and expansionist project extended to curtailing the independence of the judiciary, strengthening the military, and concentrating power in the executive.
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