Meaning of clamp down on | Babel Free

Definitions

To take measures to stop (something); to put an end to (something); to exert tighter control of (something); to treat (someone or something) more harshly.

idiomatic, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“The government aims to clamp down on underage drinking.”

“American referee Mike Geiger's failure to clamp down on early misdemeanours led to him losing control⟳ of a game that Colombia seemed determined to turn⟳ into a battle.”

“A few chilling examples of what GPT-4 can do — or, more accurately, what it did do, before OpenAI clamped down on it — can be found in a document released by OpenAI this week.”

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