Synonym: check, control, pavement, restrain, stop. Similar words: suburb, urban, disturb, suburban, turbine, disturbing, perturbation, incur. Meaning: [kɜːb] 
n. 1. an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) 2. a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse 3. a stock exchange in New York 4. the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess. v. 1. lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits 2. to put down by force or authority 3. keep to the curb 4. place restrictions on.
n. 1. an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) 2. a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse 3. a stock exchange in New York 4. the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess. v. 1. lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits 2. to put down by force or authority 3. keep to the curb 4. place restrictions on. 
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121 The report calls for stronger macro-control policies concerning the property market. These include more measures to tighten money supply, improve social welfare, and curb speculative buying.
122 Curb interest rate hikes by prohibiting credit card companies from retroactively jacking up rates on existing balances until the customer is 60 days behind on payments.
123 Ferreira was sitting on a curb in one of Rio's most violent slums and minutes earlier had witnessed his colleague's skull shattered by a high calibre rifle shot.
124 These companies, cut off from bank loans at reasonable rates of interest, had turned instead to supposedly usurious moneylenders, known as the curb market.
125 But critics say he wants to curb the power of the judiciary.
126 China to set up agencies to curb market manipulation, monopoly.
127 E. g. The pollution is getting worse and worse, however, the government still doesn't place a curb on motor vehicle purchase.Sentencedict.com
128 A boy staggered out of the bus, stumbled and collapsed on the snowbank at the curb.
129 Not only that, this will no doubt further curb market bounced up space.
130 Think of person driving late at night and falls asleep behind the wheel, the curb or guard rail is there to wake him up so that something really harmful doesn't happen to that person.
131 The driver pulled up to the curb and the traffic cop told him that he had been doing ninety-eight-a really breakneck speed.
132 Curb parking, off-street parking and illegal parking are proposed as the only three parking options during this period. The parking costs of these three options are then calculated respectively.
133 Autodesk substantially reduce the price to curb the rise of nationalities software.
134 As a young professional in China, Ms Zhi learned to curb her natural talkativeness when attending meetings with her boss.
135 While declaring the polar bear threatened by global warming, the Bush Interior Department added a rule that limited the use of the ESA to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
136 This requirement was instituted during the early 1930s, in the era of massive bank failure[sentencedict.com], to help curb runs on banks.
137 And there are plans to increase the supply of middle to low-priced housing to curb property speculation.
138 In Qatar, the awkward squad campaigned to limit the right of NGOs to take part in reviewing compliance with UNCAC, and also to curb the amount of information that must be published.
139 But some doubt that he will curb spending enough to make the package fiscally responsible.
140 One of them, the ombudswoman, whose job is to curb abuses of state power, demanded a criminal investigation.
141 We must resolutely curb illegal overseas financing and the unauthorized incurring of debts in disguised form.
142 Beijing's efforts to curb the property price bubble came about the same time as sovereign debt concerns for several European countries, which impaired credit provision and reduced spending directly.
143 At the American Heart Association, Dr. Daniel Jones, the president, said working with Microsoft was a way to accelerate his group’s efforts to curb heart disease.
144 Mr Lula da Silva made no new commitments to curb Brazil's emissions.
145 To curb an economy that's in danger of overheating, the Chinese government is discouraging its state banks from extending new loans to ventures in overbuilt industries —such as cement.
146 Until 1953 it was known as the New York Curb Exchange.
147 We should increase input in agriculture, develop advanced technologies, curb market speculation, increase food assistance and intensify cooperation in agriculture and food.
148 Withthe same condition, the listed - stock company on the second market will be signed toenter curb market.
149 Figure 13 shows a paratransit bus after the rollover accident to curb side.
150 With the development of design process, the system continue to follow-up control, which's aim is to curb the development of design defects and eliminate the formed design defects.
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