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curtail | Intermediate English to reduce or limit something, or to stop something before it is finished: He had to curtail his speech when time ran out.

What Is Curtailment? Curtailment is the act of restricting or reducing something or cutting it short. The word is often used in business announcements and has several uses in the mortgage industry: A mortgage loan may be satisfied by curtailment when the homeowner pays off the balance ahead of schedule.

[+ object] formal. : to reduce or limit (something) The new laws are an effort to curtail illegal drug use. We have to severely/drastically curtail [=cut back] our expenses. School activities are being curtailed due to a lack of funds.

Some common synonyms of curtail are abbreviate, abridge, retrench, and shorten. While all these words mean "to reduce in extent," curtail adds an implication of cutting that in some way deprives of completeness or adequacy.

Kids Definition curtail. verb. cur·​tail (ˌ)kər-ˈtā(ə)l. : to make less by or as if by cutting off part of.

curtail in American English (kərˈteɪl ) verb transitive. to cut short; reduce; abridge. SIMILAR WORDS: ˈshorten.

Examples of curtailment

1. In his inability to force this nameless woman to marry him, he faced a definite curtailment of his former power.
2. Adding intentions does not affect that basic definition but constrains the set of actions that are to count as curtailments.

The huge benefit of curtailment is that you can cut years off your mortgage. On top of that, paying off your home early saves you thousands of dollars in interest over the life of your loan.

to limit something or make it last for a shorter time Spending on books has been severely curtailed. The lecture was curtailed by the fire alarm going off. Definitions on the go. Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary app.

'Curtail' means reduce in extent or quantity. Thus option 4 which means make or become longer is the correct antonym.

See synonyms for curtail on Thesaurus.com. verb (used with object) to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.

Curtailments are nothing but cutting unnecessary steel area. Basically to reduce the steel area and make structure ductile ,under reinforced and also economical,we use this concept.