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[ noun ] the act of making something tighter
Examples "the tightening of economic controls" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)In each of the last , the trial marked the beginning of a new course : in Moscow the liquidation of the Old Bolsheviks and the tightening of Stalin 's dictatorship ; in the United_States the initiation of militant anti Communism , with the repentant ex Communist in the vanguard . Related terms |
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