freeze
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6.2
- noun
- /friːz/
- Formal
:
congelación
- Due to budget cuts, the company has announced a freeze on any hiring until further notice.
- wage freeze
- price freeze
- hiring freeze
Examples
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They announced a hiring freeze last year!
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She's had a pay freeze for the last five years.
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I put a freeze on everything.
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I'll recommend the president put a freeze... On all banking activities.
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A "salary freeze" does not increase employees' earnings or model future pay increases.
Academic text (2007) -
The "Herald" has it from a reliable source that the President plans a freeze on all government contracts.
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Adjust your records to show that my client's $10 million was deposited into your bank before the date of the freeze.
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There's a pause or a freeze on the funding through the Inflation Reduction Act.
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I put a freeze on pending regulations and set up a task force under Vice President Bush to review regulations with an eye toward getting rid of as many as possible.
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The banks rewarded Peru's apparently "conciliatory" gestures by granting a one-month freeze on loans maturing in late 1984.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
310
1.0
An act when something ends or pauses
109
2.3
A stop in movement or activity
70
4.3
A temporary stop of an activity or service
45
8.5
A temporary official stop of an activity by those in charge
5
4.4
A rule that stops a company or government office from taking on new workers to save money
2
6.0
A time when work or activity stops for a long time
1
4.1
A policy that stops pay from increasing for a set time
1
4.1
An action that keeps prices at their current level for a set time to stop big price rises
Idioms
- Informal
To make your bottom very cold by sitting or staying outside in cold weather
Suddenly stop moving because you feel afraid or surprised
Compounds
- Specialized
6
4.1
Food with most water removed by freezing and drying so it keeps for a long time
5
4.4
A rule that stops a company or government office from taking on new workers to save money
- Specialized
1
4.1
An action that keeps prices at their current level for a set time to stop big price rises
- Specialized
A machine that keeps food or lab samples from spoiling by freezing and removing their water
- Specialized
A way to dry food or medicine by freezing it and removing the ice so it keeps its shape
- Specialized
A machine or process that makes food very cold quickly to keep its taste and vitamins
How Restricted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Freeze comes from an old word meaning 'to become cold', like frost, so a 'freeze' (for money, hiring, or weapons) is an official act that makes something stay still, like ice that stops movement.