Definitions for clamp down
clamp down

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1. clamp down, crack downverb

   repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)

   "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"

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1. clamp down

   Clamp down refers to taking strict action to prevent or restrict certain activities or actions, often to enforce rules or regulations. It can also refer to an increased effort to enforce laws or rules more strictly, particularly to stop or control unwanted or illegal activities.

Matched Categories

1. • Restrict

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of clamp down in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of clamp down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of clamp down in a Sentence

1. Fred VanVleet:

   Our offense has been carrying us most nights, but it’s probably harder to win that way, if that score would have been 120 to 125, I don't know which way it goes. But I like the fact that we were able to clamp down.

2. Laksheish M Patel:

   The ways how SBICAP broker makes clients to loss money 1) Trading platform is clamp down during market fall 2) No command is accepted by trading platform when market swings and at closing session 3) Whole screen or transaction page of trading platform gets whitewashed especially during sudden surge or downfall 4) Accounting system is ambiguous and tricky 5) Automated reply to each complaints and not resolving. No real customer service

3. Steven Howard:

   The thing begins to fire, and it begins to jump and buck all over the place, your first human instinct is for your hands to clamp down, and you clamp down on the trigger, and if the thing has a 32-round magazine ... it starts spraying all over and people get killed.

4. Nicholas Holt:

   We believe there needs to be more attention paid to this, there needs to be more efforts to clamp down on the bad faith trademarks.

5. Deepti Gurdasani:

   We need to refocus our entire strategy on reducing transmission, all countries need to have long term focus on masks and ventilation,( and to) clamp down on outbreaks as they occur.

References

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