Kürzung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abridgment noun The act of making something shorter or of taking something away.
- cutback noun A cut made to an existing program or service, to reduce it.
Senses
Kürzung is used for these senses in English:
- abridgment (dated, legal) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
- curtailment The act of curtailing.
- cutback A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.
- shortening the process by which something is made shorter; a reduction in length.
abridgment — full definition
- noun The act of making something shorter or of taking something away.
- noun The condition of having been made shorter or reduced.
- noun A shortened version of a book or other piece of writing.
- noun Something that cuts time short, such as an amusement that makes the time seem to fly by.
cutback — full definition
- noun A cut made to an existing program or service, to reduce it.
- noun (surfing) A move in which the surfer turns back toward the part of the wave that is breaking.
- noun Bitumen thinned with a solvent, used in roofing glues, cements and coatings applied without heat.
- noun A pass, made by the attacking side, sent to a spot farther from the goal line being attacked.
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