curtailing
Putting limits on
Curtailing is reducing or cutting short something, especially by removing part of it.
The word suggests limiting scope, duration, or extent: The company is curtailing operations due to budget cuts, New regulations are curtailing our freedoms.
Where cutting implies severance, curtailing implies trimming back while something remains.
Decreasing amount or extent
- trimmingCutting away excess
- shorteningReducing length or duration
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- decreasingBecoming smaller or fewer
minimizing · shrinking · paring · slashing · diminishing · lessening · pruning · scaling back
Placing restrictions upon
- constrainingImposing limits upon
- containingHolding within limits
- controllingExerting authority over others
- checkingAct of verification
curbing · reining in · holding back · inhibiting · suppressing · blocking · impeding · hampering
cutting back
Decreasing amount or extent
- trimmingCutting away excess
- shorteningReducing length or duration
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
decreasing · minimizing · shrinking · paring · slashing · diminishing · lessening · pruning · scaling back · tapering
limiting
Placing restrictions upon
- constrainingImposing limits upon
- containingHolding within limits
- controllingExerting authority over others
checking · curbing · reining in · holding back · inhibiting · suppressing · blocking · impeding · hampering · hindering
- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, reduction
- Reduceshrink, diminish, decrease, lessen, reduce
- reducingshrinking, lessening, diminishing, decreasing, cutting back
- shorteningabbreviation, abbreviating, abridgment, truncating, truncation
- restraintrestricting, limiting, containing, reining in, holding back
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
curtailingexpanding
Growing in scope
extending · enlarging · increasing · broadening · amplifying
curtailingprolonging
Extending in time
extending · protracting · lengthening · continuing · perpetuating
curtailingliberating
Setting free from constraint
freeing · unleashing · enabling · permitting · empowering