Usually means: Making something more firm, secure.
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  1. tightening: Merriam-Webster
  2. tightening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tightening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tightening, tightening: Wordnik
  5. tightening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tightening: Wiktionary
  7. tightening: Dictionary.com
  8. tightening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tightening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. tightening: Rhymezone
  11. Tightening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tightening: FreeDictionary.org
  13. tightening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. tightening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tightening: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tightening: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tightening)

▸ noun:  The act or process of making more tight.

Similar:
tighten up, stiffen, reduce, constrain, fasten, retightening, contracting, constriction, retying, straightening, more...

Opposite:
loosening, relaxing, unfastening, untightening

Types:
torque, clamp, band, screw, spring, nut, bolt, washer, spacer, lock washer, more...

Phrases:
tightening up, belt tightening, tightening belt, tightening pulley, tightening the screw, more...

Adjectives:
further, monetary, general, sudden, fiscal, final, slight, gradual, excessive, progressive, significant

Colors:
    steel gray,     charcoal,     iron black,     slate blue,     midnight blue, more...



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Similar:
tighten up, stiffen, reduce, constrain, fasten, retightening, contracting, constriction, retying, straightening, more...

Opposite:
loosening, relaxing, unfastening, untightening

Types:
torque, clamp, band, screw, spring, nut, bolt, washer, spacer, lock washer, more...

Phrases:
tightening up, belt tightening, tightening belt, tightening pulley, tightening the screw, tightening the screws, tightening the purse strings, act of tightening, belt tightening move, tightening a muscle, more...

Adjectives:
further, monetary, general, sudden, fiscal, final, slight, gradual, excessive, progressive, significant

Colors:
    steel gray,     charcoal,     iron black,     slate blue,     midnight blue, more...



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