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单词 curtail
释义
curtail
verb[T]
uk
/kəˈteɪl/us
/kɚˈteɪl/
tostopsomething before it isfinished, or toreduceorlimitsomething:
制止；减少；缩减；限制
to curtailyourholiday/spending缩短假期／缩减开支
With all thesnow,ourdailywalkshave beenseverelycurtailed.雪太多，我们每天的散步被大大削减。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to cancel something
  • cancelSorry, I have to cancel our plans tonight.
  • call offThe game has been called off because of the weather.
  • offThe meeting's off because James is ill.
  • scrapWe've scrapped our plans for a trip to France.
  • suspendThe ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.
  • postponeWe've postponed the wedding until next year.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Cancelling and interrupting
  • adjourn
  • adjourn tosomewhere
  • arrest
  • break
  • callsomeone/somethingoff
  • cancellable
  • cut
  • halt
  • in midstreamidiom
  • kick
  • kicksomethinginto touchidiom
  • mothball
  • noncancellable
  • rain
  • scratch
  • shut(something)off
  • stop
  • Zoom bomb
  • Zoombomber
  • Zoombombing
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Limiting and restricting

Related word

curtailment
(Definition ofcurtailfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

curtail| American Dictionary

curtail
verb[T]
us
/kərˈteɪl/
toreduceorlimitsomething, or tostopsomething before it isfinished:
He had to curtail hisspeechwhentimeranout.

curtailment

noun[U]us
/kərˈteɪl·mənt/
(Definition ofcurtailfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

curtail| Business English

curtail
verb[T]
uk
/kɜːˈteɪl/us
toreduceorlimitsomething:
The Federal Reserveraisedinterestratesslightlyto curtailinflation.
The lastgovernmentseverelycurtailedtradeunionrights.

curtailment

noun[CorU]
They will notwillinglyacceptany curtailment oftheircivilliberties.
(Definition ofcurtailfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcurtail

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Such an approach would be an important step in improving the overall use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and curtailing the development of resistant micro-organisms.
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If outlays threaten to exceed the threshold, allotments must be reduced and/or enrollments curtailed unless the cap is expressly overridden by legislative action.
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The 1957-59 period witnessed pressures from politicians, students, and labour tocurtailmilitary power and excesses.
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Economic liberalisation maycurtailsome forms of grand corruption but others may become easier.
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It was curtailed once the money dried up with the phasing out of privatisation and the nation's economic contraction that set in after 1997.
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In the absence of partners, older people sometimes found their social networks curtailed.
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Faced with this reality, families made the decision to give individual choice priority over social norms and ended up curtailing their fertility.
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This productive energy seems to defy any efforts tocurtailor constrain it.
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Generally, governments are not lacking in the formal powers necessary tocurtailthe autonomy of insurers.
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From the perspective of evolutionary history, schizophrenia would then be a benign trait, neither enhancing nor curtailing survival to reproduction.
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Certainly, conditionality and, in places, the restriction of aid flows, have curtailed the resources available to those in state power.
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An assertive president is likely to have his formal powers curtailed if she were ever to try to use them.
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Participants heard how difficult it is to stop a determined thief, which may have curtailed support for policing and obviation.
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In practice, the scope that employees have to bargain is severely curtailed by the nature of the labour market.
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The state's authoritarian and expansionist project extended to curtailing the independence of the judiciary, strengthening the military, and concentrating power in the executive.
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