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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clamp down, crack downverb

    repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)

    "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"

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  1. crack downverb

    To enforce more stringently or more thoroughly.

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  1. Crack Down

    Crack Down (クラックダウン) is a run and gun arcade game released by Sega in 1989 and ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990 in Japan and 1991 in North America by Sage's Creation. It was also ported and released to a number of home computer platforms by U.S. Gold. The Mega Drive version of Crack Down was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on August 7, 2007 and in PAL regions on September 7, 2007. It also released on Steam on June 1, 2010.

ChatGPT

  1. crack down

    To crack down means to take strict or severe actions in order to enforce rules, laws, or regulations and stop or reduce undesirable activities. It often refers to implementing strong measures to control or completely stop certain behaviors or practices that are deemed illegal, inappropriate, or harmful.

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  1. Crack Down

    Crack Down is a run and gun arcade game originally released by Sega in 1989, and ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990. It was also ported and released to a number of home computer platforms by U.S. Gold. The Mega Drive version of Crack Down was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on August 7, 2007 and in PAL regions on September 7, 2007.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of crack down in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

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

Examples of crack down in a Sentence

  1. Luo Yi:

    There's no need to doubt regulators' determination to crack down on behaviours such as illegal margin financing and price manipulation, but at this point, should you panic and sell all your shares? I don't think so.

  2. Nicole Longo:

    PhRMA supports the FDA's efforts to crack down on organizations that are circumventing its robust safety and efficacy requirements, drug importation schemes expose Americans to potentially unsafe, counterfeit or adulterated medicines.

  3. Andrew Lebovich:

    The Parliament was debating tougher anti-terrorism laws when the museum attack took place. The worry now is that Tunisia's security services will crack down hard on Islamists increasing tensions and making the problem far worse.

  4. Jamie Farquhar:

    Together they have increased the tail risk that the U.S. will look to crack down on it in some way.

  5. Vern Buchanan:

    We've been talking about China stealing our technology for 20 years, it's still going on today, I think there's a lot of appetite to crack down on China.


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