Usually means: Reduces, shortens, or cuts off.
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  1. curtails: Merriam-Webster
  2. curtails: Collins English Dictionary
  3. curtails: Vocabulary.com
  4. Curtails, curtails: Wordnik
  5. curtails: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. curtails: Wiktionary
  7. curtails: Dictionary.com
  8. curtails: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. curtails: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curtails: Legal dictionary

(Note: See curtail as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (curtail)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of (an animal).
verb:  (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict; to keep in check.
noun:  (architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
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