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n. The act of curtailing

n. The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.

n. The act of cutting off or down; a shortening; decrease or diminution: as, the curtailment of expenses was demanded.

n. the temporal property of being cut short

n. the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

n. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

"Although coal has been replaced by electricity for many industrial uses, and by oil for many heating purposes, it is still a major source of industrial energy, as well as a major source of domestic heating, to an extent that any serious shortage of supply must result in curtailment of industrial production, consequential unemployment, and suffering in Canadian homes."

shortness    economy    saving    restraint   

ailment    derailment   

compend    retrocession    abrogation    retrogradation    abridgment    retrenchment    dilatation    neutralisation    lessen    retrogression