crackdown
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- noun
- /ˈkrækˌdaʊn/
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- In response to increased crime rates, city officials initiated a crackdown on drug trafficking and street violence.
- a government crackdown
- a police crackdown
- a military crackdown
Strikes, bombings, race riots and government crackdowns are racking the country.
- Strikes, bombings, race riots and government crackdowns are racking the country.
- Biden's obviously cracking down on it and I've seen some crackdowns from Trump as well.
- So what you may see is a crackdown on, say, people taking action.
- That's right, Netflix's crackdown on password sharing has already started.
- And it led to this, you know, sort of national crackdown on shoplifting.
- The mayor announced a crackdown on open drug dealing in mid-december.
- Shortly afterwards, though, the crackdowns began.
- You know, there's an ongoing expanding crackdown against foreign NGOs operating in the country.
- I mean, we've seen, you know, just to mass, mass protests and some really tough crackdowns.
- Oh man, we've also got Chinese authorities again this week doubling down on their quote full scale crackdown on cryptocurrency mining.
- Obviously, it was incredibly difficult for protesters at the time, but what we've seen subsequently is widespread violence, widespread crackdowns.
- The severity of the crackdown in China forced the gangs offshore to Southeast Asia, where they began targeting victims outside of mainland China.
- They don't have a say over what happens and the incredible crackdown on the early sort of protests that were went right across the country in the first few days of the war.
- So as a result of China's crackdown on cryptocurrency, the first wave of used mining GPU's at least on mass has appeared online for the aftermarket.
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And the thing about it is that this crackdown had a few aspects to it.
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And it led to this, you know, sort of national crackdown on shoplifting.
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So what you may see is a crackdown on, say, people taking action.
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And because he had helped us cover the crackdown there, he ended up in prison.
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In some ways, the latest crackdown reveals nothing new under the sun.
Academic text (1997) -
Today, a nationwide crackdown was underway...
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And I did learn that there was this quiet crackdown going on all across America led by the DEA.
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I have returned to stand again with those I left behind following the brutal crackdown of the 1989 pro-democracy movement.
Academic text (1992) -
Given Lux's failure to make curfew, everyone expected a crackdown.
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Today you've announced a Federal crackdown on people who disgrace national monuments.
Synonyms
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A sudden action by authorities to stop illegal or harmful activity
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crackdown comes from the two parts crack and down, where crack suggests a sudden, strong action like a loud 'crack' and down means 'to put down' or 'stop'. So a crackdown is a strong effort to stop bad or illegal activity.