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crackdown
[ krak-doun ]
noun
- the severe or stern enforcement of regulations, laws, etc., as to root out abuses or correct a problem.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of crackdown1
Example Sentences
The FCC's investigation into Disney also comes amid a wider crackdown on DEI practices by the Trump administration, with impacts felt beyond the US.
Senior JSO members deny the crackdown had anything to do with the group's decision to "hang up the hi-vis" – as its statement this week announcing the end of campaign put it.
Rights groups believe hundreds of people died and thousands were injured in the crackdown.
The crackdown comes as other Trump administration officials turn up the temperature on their own mass deportation efforts.
The crackdown continues to enjoy overwhelming support among Salvadorans, who re-elected the hugely popular president by a landslide last year.
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