1. 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.
Definition of curtail. 1  transitive verb. : 2  to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part curtail the power of the executive branch curtail inflation Some school activities are being curtailed due to a lack of funds.
At common law, which derives from English law, curtilage has been defined as the open space situated within a common enclosure belonging to a dwelling-house.. Black's Law Dictionary of 1891 defined it as: The enclosed space of ground and buildings immediately surrounding a dwelling-house.