Similar words: drop down, keep down, lamp, clam, lampoon, clamour, clammy, clamor. Meaning: n. sudden restriction on an activity.
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(1) A police clampdown on car thieves hit a snag when villains stole one of their cars.
(2) The municipal government has decided to have a clampdown on building new business centre buildings.
(3) Following the military coup, there has been a clampdown on press reporting in the capital.
(4) If anything, it could create a clampdown on democratic tendencies by regimes in neighbouring countries.
(5) The new administration has promised a clampdown on corruption.
(6) The governor has ordered a clampdown on illegal immigration.
(7) Black opposition leaders are arrested, a press clampdown begins and resistance is strangled.
(8) Police say the clampdown on drink-driving has been highly successful.
(9) They ought to back the new clampdown.
(10) There are signs that a clampdown is coming.
(11) A tight clampdown on media coverage makes it difficult to gauge whether the clashes are the start of a bigger revolt or just a fleeting show of dissent.
(12) We saw property counters selling on possible clampdown on deferred payment schemes for property purchases.
(13) China's clampdown on the free flow of information has often smacked of protectionism.
(14) The government has decided to have a clampdown on building roads.
(15) A savage clampdown on the US consumer might have thrown the world into recession.
(16) A clampdown on unproven and potentially unsafe stem cell research is being called an expert group.
(17) But even though there a growing a clampdown(sentencedict.com), the resistance to change is strong.
(18) Opposition groups see the bannings as the latest stage of a government clampdown.
(19) If the military were to seize power under Bourbollon, the clampdown would be fierce.
(20) Human rights observers said it was the most swingeing clampdown that the world had known on the free use of cyberspace.
(21) In mid-1990, martial law was formally lifted but the security clampdown remains currently in force.
(22) The Yeti Roast Duck Office has decided to have a clampdown on building new chain stores.
(23) Tourism a pillar of the Tibetan economy, has been devastated by the clampdown.
(24) Police efforts to thwart a feared attack triggered a disruptive , security clampdown across the country.
(25) It became a target for the revolutionaries after the king dismissed the popular minister Necker - they feared a military clampdown was on the cards and that the National Assembly would be shut down.