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Definition of Clampdowns
1. clampdown [n] - See also: clampdown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clampdowns
Literary usage of Clampdowns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. China: Progress and Reform Challenges by (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2003)
"Immigration clampdowns in subsequent years limited the labour supply, pushing up
wages, while property prices rocketed, so that by the late 1970s Hong Kong ..."
2. From Immigration to Integration: Local Solutions to a Global Challenge by Oecd (2006)
"Previously, the issue was framed largely in terms of policing, with clampdowns
by the authorities invariably resulting in migrant workers or rejected asylum ..."
3. Women Marching Into the 21st Century: Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokodo by Human Sciences Research Council (2000)
"In 1977, with the renewed clampdowns that followed the Soweto revolt, she was
banished to Brandfort in the Orange Free State. During 1985 she was as active ..."
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