Usually means: Strict enforcement of rules, regulations.
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  1. clampdown: Merriam-Webster
  2. clampdown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clampdown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clampdown: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clampdown: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clampdown, clampdown: Wordnik
  7. clampdown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clampdown: Wiktionary
  9. clampdown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clampdown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clampdown: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. clampdown: Dictionary.com
  13. Clampdown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. clampdown: Rhymezone
  15. clampdown: FreeDictionary.org
  16. clampdown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. clampdown: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. clampdown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Clampdown: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control.

Similar:
clamp-down, crackdown, short sharp shock, blockade, stranglehold, clenching, deathlock, cuffing, clutch, keylock, more...

Opposite:
relaxation, easing, loosening

Adjectives:
military, political, massive, general, new, recent, major, total, severe, subsequent, soviet



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Similar:
clamp-down, crackdown, short sharp shock, blockade, stranglehold, clenching, deathlock, cuffing, clutch, keylock, more...

Opposite:
relaxation, easing, loosening

Adjectives:
military, political, massive, general, new, recent, major, total, severe, subsequent, soviet



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