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.
Stop, arrest, check, halt imply causing a cessation of movement or progress (literal or figurative). Stop is the general term for the idea: to stop a clock. Arrest usually refers to stopping by imposing a sudden and complete restraint: to arrest development. Check implies bringing about an abrupt, partial, or temporary stop: to check a trotting horse. To halt means to make a temporary stop, especially one resulting from a command: to halt a company of soldiers.