cracked down; cracking down; cracks down
: to take positive regulatory or disciplinary action
Examples of crackdown in a Sentence
Noun
Companies that pollute are the target of a new crackdown.
Verb
a repressive government that cracked down on political demonstrations
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Rebecca Schneid, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
The crackdown came soon after; Zion Church was shut down, and Jin was barred from leaving the country.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
The company cracked down on parties and implemented a number of new safety measures in 2019 in response to a deadly shooting at an Airbnb booking that left five dead.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The raid signals a new crackdown Castro’s aggressive tactics against drug trafficking in Rio De Janeiro mirror the right-wing tactics of his former ally, former president Jair Bolsonaro, and could be a move for Castro to score political points on the issue of organized crime.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
The crackdown came soon after; Zion Church was shut down, and Jin was barred from leaving the country.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
Both cities had become key fronts in the conflict after Assad’s forces began cracking down on peaceful protesters the previous year.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
The company cracked down on parties and implemented a number of new safety measures in 2019 in response to a deadly shooting at an Airbnb booking that left five dead.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Crackdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crackdown. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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