curtail
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To reduce, restrict or cut short something.
Budget cuts forced the museum to curtail its opening hours.
Law verb
To cut short a person's existing period of leave to enter or remain.
The Home Office may curtail leave where the holder ceases to meet the conditions of the visa.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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