to immobilize

Examples

• All

• 17. The lack of clear jurisdiction immobilized other governments also and led to the subsequent sweeping change of power.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Most high CN ratio composts (>70:1) immobilize nitrogen.

  Academic text (2000)

• To prevent future proliferation, the United States should sustain and build on these programs by extending the Nunn-Lugar efforts to tactical nuclear weapons, for example, and by funding proposed efforts to immobilize plutonium.

  Academic text (2001)

• And as a result of programs designed to immobilize or commercialize leftover Soviet plutonium and weapons-grade uranium, material that was once intended for Soviet bombs will soon meet half the supply needs of American power reactors.

  Academic text (2001)

• The new regulations will immobilize capital investments, preventing companies from using their funds freely.

• Changes in government policy could immobilize many resources that businesses rely on to operate efficiently.

Synonyms

B

to block

vsto immobilize

∞ 3.0

To stop movement, access, or progress

means making capital unavailable in finance rather than mere obstruction

F

to freeze

vsto immobilize

• Formal

154 5.3

Officially stop an activity, for example the use of money or assets

applies specifically to making capital unavailable and fixed in finance

I

to inactivate

vsto immobilize

4 5.8

To make something stop working

refers to making assets unavailable and fixed in a financial context

Antonyms

A

to activate

715 3.6

To make a machine, system, or account start working

How Available

to allow

561 1.0

to restrict

361 3.1

to immobilize

• Specialized

7.6

freeze

• Formal

37 6.2

to seize

• Formal

156 4.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology