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  • noun Plural form of curtailment.

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Examples

  • "Those short-term curtailments we experienced in the fourth quarter have been resolved,"

    Devon Oil Production Returns to Pre-Cutback Levels - Bloomberg 2011

  • Some production curtailments, especially for excavators, are likely through September as a result of the disruption to supply chains for Japanese parts after the earthquake there, the company said.

    Fiat Industrial Returns to Profit Christopher Emsden 2011

  • This also applies to disruption to the transport of oil – "curtailments of transporter to receive net production at the transfer point through no fault of the contractor or operator".

    BP 'has gained stranglehold over Iraq' after oilfield deal is rewritten 2011

  • But Arizona's and Nevada's losses would grow as water levels drop, with curtailments eventually hitting California.

    Wet Winter Can't Slake West's Thirst Jim Carlton 2011

  • California's unemployment rate is 11 percent and recent budget cuts have caused sharp curtailments in state services ranging from layoffs of public safety employees to diminution of highway maintenance.

    Bob Burnett: Buy It Now! Meg Whitman's California Campaign 2010

  • Sexual gratification in pornography is not a function of emotional attachment, of kindness, of caring, and especially not of continuance of the relationship, as such continuance would translate into responsibilities, curtailments, and costs.

    Calling Bullshit on the War On Porn « Skid Roche 2008

  • It is the first step in a broader campaign to evolve the nation's information culture away from the tight-lipped secrecy of the Mahathir Mohammad era, whose 22-year reign as Prime Minister saw rapid economic development matched by expansive curtailments on individual freedoms.

    Zac Hill: Freedom of Information Comes to Malaysia Zac Hill 2010

  • During Henry's prime, from the New Deal through the Great Society, social stratification in the South and the rest of the country diminished, but changes to the tax code and curtailments to social programs have since redistributed resources back upward.

    Robert Perkinson: Texas Tough: Nightmares of My Grandfather Robert Perkinson 2010

  • During Henry's prime, from the New Deal through the Great Society, social stratification in the South and the rest of the country diminished, but changes to the tax code and curtailments to social programs have since redistributed resources back upward.

    Robert Perkinson: Texas Tough: Nightmares of My Grandfather 2010

  • But the contemporary American right is lustful about expanding our military power, enthusiastic about erosions of civil liberties, especially as long as a non-white face can be affixed to those curtailments and has no credibility whatsoever on the issue of how government is used to perpetuate the prerogatives of American corporations.

    Jonathan Weiler: It's Not Tyranny; It's the Re-distribution, Stupid 2009

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