Curtail
verb
To decrease or reduce something, especially by a large amount.
The government has to curtail its spending.
Often appears as...
- curtail spending
- curtail production
verb
To decrease or reduce something, especially by a large amount.
The government has to curtail its spending.
Often appears as...
- curtail spending
- curtail production
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Implication
Often implies imposition or a response to negative circumstances.
The company was forced to curtail production due to the market crash.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Voluntary
Curtailment can suggest actions are taken out of necessity, not choice.
The airport had to curtail flights because of the severe weather.
Pro Tip 3/3Authority or Control
Use 'curtail' when a higher authority or situation limits something.
The new regulations will curtail our ability to invest freely.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Implication
Often implies imposition or a response to negative circumstances.
The company was forced to curtail production due to the market crash.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Voluntary
Curtailment can suggest actions are taken out of necessity, not choice.
The airport had to curtail flights because of the severe weather.
Pro Tip 3/3Authority or Control
Use 'curtail' when a higher authority or situation limits something.
The new regulations will curtail our ability to invest freely.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Implication
Often implies imposition or a response to negative circumstances.
The company was forced to curtail production due to the market crash.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Voluntary
Curtailment can suggest actions are taken out of necessity, not choice.
The airport had to curtail flights because of the severe weather.
Pro Tip 3/3Authority or Control
Use 'curtail' when a higher authority or situation limits something.
The new regulations will curtail our ability to invest freely.
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How "baby bonds" could...
The accounts would be federally managed, and they would grow at a guaranteed annual interest rate of about two percent per year in order to curtail inflation cost, and be used when the child reaches adulthood for some asset-enhancing activity, like financing a debt-free university education,
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Safari Live - Day 31 PIPE...
cats will go into somewhat of hiding they go into drainage lines and thickets so we're not going to get that amazing experience that we had yesterday where the aliens were running to water unfortunately that will be curtailed by the windy cold weather we're having
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Can you still feel a...
At the site of an amputation, severed nerve endings can thicken and become more sensitive, transmitting distress signals even in response to mild pressure. Under normal circumstances, these signals would be curtailed in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord.
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What are the most...
and that means you and everyone you know and love. That's just a tragedy of unimaginable size. But then, what's more, it would also mean the curtailment of humanity's future potential, and I believe that humanity's potential is vast.
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Advocating for gender...
assumption of male entitlement when it's far more appropriately belongs to my co-director it's a sickness it's a male pathology it has to be broken it curtails the world for women I say to all of you that while un women as it's
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Jason McCue: Terrorism...
We've talked there about curtailing the underlying need for the product itself. You could be looking there at poverty, injustice, all those sorts of things which feed terrorism. The other thing to do is to knock the product,
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Tim Jackson: An economic...
of the human soul and left the others unregarded. And in the same token, the solution becomes clear, because this isn't, therefore, about changing human nature. It isn't, in fact, about curtailing possibilities.
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Africa's Great Carbon...
is stop current emissions. And so scaling these technologies in places where we do have fossil fuel energy emissions that we could be curtailing does not make sense. Essentially, every unit of renewable energy
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The Big Bosses PIPE Hard...
I said it absolutely is a serious prison we have every level of security at this facility and each one has to be managed accordingly and we don't curtail or change in any way our policies because
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The virginity fraud PIPE...
Girls are afraid of ruining themselves, either through sport, play, tampon use or a sexual activity. We have curtailed their opportunities and their freedoms.
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How "baby bonds" could...
The accounts would be federally managed, and they would grow at a guaranteed annual interest rate of about two percent per year in order to curtail inflation cost, and be used when the child reaches adulthood for some asset-enhancing activity, like financing a debt-free university education,
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Safari Live - Day 31 PIPE...
cats will go into somewhat of hiding they go into drainage lines and thickets so we're not going to get that amazing experience that we had yesterday where the aliens were running to water unfortunately that will be curtailed by the windy cold weather we're having
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Can you still feel a...
At the site of an amputation, severed nerve endings can thicken and become more sensitive, transmitting distress signals even in response to mild pressure. Under normal circumstances, these signals would be curtailed in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord.
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What are the most...
and that means you and everyone you know and love. That's just a tragedy of unimaginable size. But then, what's more, it would also mean the curtailment of humanity's future potential, and I believe that humanity's potential is vast.
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
assumption of male entitlement when it's far more appropriately belongs to my co-director it's a sickness it's a male pathology it has to be broken it curtails the world for women I say to all of you that while un women as it's
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Jason McCue: Terrorism...
We've talked there about curtailing the underlying need for the product itself. You could be looking there at poverty, injustice, all those sorts of things which feed terrorism. The other thing to do is to knock the product,
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Tim Jackson: An economic...
of the human soul and left the others unregarded. And in the same token, the solution becomes clear, because this isn't, therefore, about changing human nature. It isn't, in fact, about curtailing possibilities.
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Africa's Great Carbon...
is stop current emissions. And so scaling these technologies in places where we do have fossil fuel energy emissions that we could be curtailing does not make sense. Essentially, every unit of renewable energy
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The Big Bosses PIPE Hard...
I said it absolutely is a serious prison we have every level of security at this facility and each one has to be managed accordingly and we don't curtail or change in any way our policies because
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The virginity fraud PIPE...
Girls are afraid of ruining themselves, either through sport, play, tampon use or a sexual activity. We have curtailed their opportunities and their freedoms.
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I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.
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S. Jay Olshansky
American Scientist
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
Perhaps what's needed now is a bolder form of censure after all, because the Internet is not a universal human right. If people cannot be trusted to treat one another with respect, dignity and consideration, perhaps they deserve to have their online freedoms curtailed.
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George Monbiot
British Writer
We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly, but not cling to them or curtail their freedoms. We should treasure the material world without seeking to own and control it.
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Robin Chase
American Businesswoman
Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.
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Richard Perle
American Public Servant
To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
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Dennis Chavez
American Politician
I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.
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Bob Geldof
Irish Actor
Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
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Ludwig Quidde
German Critic
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
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Jared Leto
American Actor
I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.
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S. Jay Olshansky
American Scientist
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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Milo Yiannopoulos
British Activist
Perhaps what's needed now is a bolder form of censure after all, because the Internet is not a universal human right. If people cannot be trusted to treat one another with respect, dignity and consideration, perhaps they deserve to have their online freedoms curtailed.
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George Monbiot
British Writer
We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly, but not cling to them or curtail their freedoms. We should treasure the material world without seeking to own and control it.
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Robin Chase
American Businesswoman
Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.
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Richard Perle
American Public Servant
To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
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Dennis Chavez
American Politician
I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.
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Bob Geldof
Irish Actor
Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
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Ludwig Quidde
German Critic
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
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