释义 |
clampdownclamp‧down /ˈklæmpdaʊn/ noun [countable usually singular] - A massive security clampdown aimed at restoring order resulted in major bloodshed, particularly in the capital, Baku.
- Black opposition leaders are arrested, a press clampdown begins and resistance is strangled.
- Human rights observers said it was the most swingeing clampdown that the world had known on the free use of cyberspace.
- If the military were to seize power under Bourbollon, the clampdown would be fierce.
- In mid-1990, martial law was formally lifted but the security clampdown remains currently in force.
sudden firm action that is taken to reduce crimeclampdown on a clampdown on drug dealers |