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

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

noun. The act of curtailing

noun. the temporal property of being cut short

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

noun. 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"Although coal has been replaced by electricity for many industrial uses, and by oil for many heating purposes, it is still a major source of industrial energy, as well as a major source of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."

economy  restraint  saving  shortness  

ailment  derailment  

abridgment  abrogation  annulment  compend  derogation  

abbreviation  abridgment  abstract  apocope  arrest