Usually means: Stop an activity or process.
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  1. call a halt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. call a halt: Collins English Dictionary
  3. call a halt: Wiktionary
  4. call a halt: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (call a halt)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To force (something) to stop. [with to ‘something’]

Similar:
stop, halt, hold, put the brakes on, put a stop to, stop cold, call off, suspend, arrest, clamp down on, more...

Opposite:
continue, proceed, carry on, persist

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Similar:
stop, halt, hold, put the brakes on, put a stop to, stop cold, call off, suspend, arrest, clamp down on, more...

Opposite:
continue, proceed, carry on, persist



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