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Definition of Curtailing
1. curtail [v] - See also: curtail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtailing
Literary usage of Curtailing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Farm Management: A Text-book for Student, Investigator, and Investor by Richard Laban Adams (1921)
"765 1326 Increasing Profits by Curtailing Waste There are two ways to make ...
It is to increase profits by curtailing, eliminating, and reducing waste. ..."
2. The Confederation of Europe: A Study of the European Alliance, 1813-1823, as by Walter Alison Phillips (1920)
"... nations the only guarantee of peace—The only proof of this would be universal
free trade— Danger of surrendering or curtailing national sovereignty in ..."
3. Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1863)
"... the continued aid of the Missionary Union, though it falls so far short of
the appropriations once granted, curtailing much the progress of our work. ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"... Ministry of Public Instruction and Arts. Decrees were issued curtailing the
right of public meeting and association and the liberty of the press, ..."
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