A connection or association: the tie-in between economic hardship and civil strife. 2. a. A media product, such as a book, video game, or movie, that makes use of material presented in another, usually more well-known media product: a video game that was a tie-in to a popular movie.
Definitions for curtailment. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word curtailment. Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: curtailment(noun) the temporal property of being cut short. suppression, curtailment(noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation. a suppression of the newspaper.
Dismemberment is the act of cutting, tearing, pulling, wrenching or otherwise removing the limbs of a living thing. It has been practised upon human beings as a form of capital punishment, can occur as a result of a traumatic accident, or in connection with murder, suicide, or cannibalism. As opposed to surgical amputation of the limbs, dismemberment is often fatal to all but the simplest of creatures. In criminology, a distinction is made between offensive and defensive dismemberment. Intentional, criminal dismemberment is known as mayhem.