Hyphenation of curtailment

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word curtailment? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

cur-tail-ment

Definitions of curtailment:

1.	The temporal property of being cut short
2.	The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation A suppression of the newspaper
3.	The reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

Synonyms of curtailment:

noun	shortness
noun	suppression, restraint
noun	retrenchment, downsizing, economy, saving

Last hyphenations of this language

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