abridgment

abridge | American Dictionary

abridge
verb[ T ]
us/əˈbrɪdʒ/
to make a written text shorter

abridged

adjectiveus/əˈbrɪdʒd/
They listened to an abridged version on tape.

Examples of abridge

abridge
He argues that soldiers' patient rights are sometimes abridged and yield to military necessity.
Every reference has to be checked, because most of the entries have been abridged.
The first line says that there are three types of repairs: cancel repair (can), modify repair (mod), and abridge repair (abr).
First, it does not seem true that only a right can justify interfering with or abridging another right.
The usefulness of the main translated text would be much enhanced were the annotations organized, focused, drastically abridged and better informed.
These principles are absent or abridged in military contexts.
The verb retrancher signifies abridging, cutting away and diminishing.
In the example considered, the summary measures calculated from the abridged table were very close to the corresponding measures obtained from the complete table.
From the abridged table can be calculated summary measures of the kind mentioned earlier.
Space in the film is abridged, syncopated in the manner typical of the city film.
For this study, abridged versions of the vocabulary and the grammar scales were used.
In addition, the life tables may be either complete or abridged.
Workers might be said to have their freedom of contract wrongly abridged by the minimum wage.
Only first author and abridged year of publication is shown.
Discussion and interpretation of the results seem abridged in a few studies, but collectively the chapters present a clear and useful picture of the complexity of construct validation research.
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