curtailment

Variant of curtail

curtail definition

cur·tail (kər tāl′)

transitive verb

to cut short; reduce; abridge

Etymology: ME curtailen, altered (by assoc. with taillen < OFr taillier: see tailor) < OFr curtald, curtal

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