noun
- a person or thing that curtails or reduces something
Usage: often used in formal or technical contexts
Examples
- The new budget cuts served as a curtailer of the department's expansion plans.
- Rising interest rates act as a curtailer of consumer spending.
- The regulation was designed to be a curtailer of excessive corporate practices.
- Time constraints became an unwelcome curtailer of the project's scope.
- The pandemic proved to be a curtailer of international travel.