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.
derail. 1  To cause to come off the tracks. The train was destroyed when it was derailed by the penny. ( 2 intransitive) To come off the tracks. ( 3 intransitive) To deviate from the previous course or direction. The conversation derailed once James brought up politics. 4  To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.