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curtailment

English

  1. 🔊 the temporal property of being cut short
  2. 🔊 the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
  3. 🔊 the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
    “a suppression of the newspaper”

Similar words

retrenchment downsizing suppression abbreviation abridgment abstract apocope arrest arrestation astriction astringency attrition bereavement bottleneck cervix check cheeseparing circumscription coarctation compactedness compaction compression compressure concentration