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Curtailment is the noun: the act of reducing or limiting something, or the result of that cut. You might read about the curtailment of a service, of working hours, or of someone’s freedom. It names the cut itself, not the thing being cut. Like curtail, it lives mostly in news, law, and official writing. Everyday speakers more often say a cut, a reduction, or a limit.
縮減、限制（名詞：削減這件事本身）
組成curtail + -ment (the ending that turns a verb into a noun for the action or its result). From curtail + English -ment, itself from Latin -mentum by way of French and Middle English.
同家族的字
- curtailthe verb this noun is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
curtailmentnoun/kɚˈteɪlmənt/
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The act of curtailing.
- The railways are fully alive to the position, and are sparing neither effort nor expense to provide more attractive trains and to effect economies, but in such circumstances some curtailment of services is inevitable.
- Curtailment was said to be imminent of services on the ex-Caledonian Glasgow-Carlisle main line via Carstairs, also between Glasgow and Lanark and on other ex-C.R. lines in the Glasgow area.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。