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-[URL shortening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening) is the action of shortening a [URL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page.
+[URL shortening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening) is the action of shortening a [URL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator) to make it substantially shorter and still direct to the required page.
 
 Before hosting one, please see [shortcomings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening#Shortcomings) of URL shorteners.