Definition of Crackdowns

1. Noun. (plural of crackdown) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crackdowns

1. crackdown [n] - See also: crackdown

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crackdowns

crack wise
cracka
crackable
crackajack
crackajacks
crackas
crackaz
crackback
crackbacks
crackberries
crackberry
crackbrain
crackbrained
crackbrains
crackdown
crackdowns (current term)
cracked
cracked-pot resonance
cracked-pot sound
cracked-wheat bread
cracked a book
cracked heel
cracked tooth syndrome
cracked wheat
crackedness
cracker
cracker-barrel
cracker-jack
cracker bonbon
cracker box

Literary usage of Crackdowns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Searching for Answers: Annual Evaluation Report on Drugs & Crime by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"Dealers and buyers change their behavior in the face of crackdowns. ... Long-term maintenance of crackdowns, however, requires additional police resources, ..."

2. The Human Rights Crisis in Kashmir: A Pattern of Impunity by Physicians for Human Rights (U.S., Asia Watch Committee (U.S.), Asia Watch Committee (U.S., Human Rights Watch (Organization), Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1993)
"Even so, they are often caught in crackdowns. ... International humanitarian law '" Raids or cordon-and-searches are commonly referred to as crackdowns. ..."

3. Out of Sight--Out of Mind?: A Report on Anti-Homeless Laws, Litigation and by Kelly Cunningham (1999)
"There have been no sweeps or crackdowns and general laws are not selectively enforced ... There have been no recent crackdowns or sweeps. For the most part, ..."

4. A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls Into by Dorothy Q. Thomas, Sidney Jones (1993)
"He said the crackdowns "could scare away the immigrant workers and seriously affect the local economy, which needed the cheap labor to sustain its growth. ..."

5. Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked Into Debt Bondage in Japan by Kinsey Dinan (2000)
""Boss easily got information about immigration crackdowns. So during immigration crackdowns, the Thai people stayed at the apartment and the snack was ..."

6. Academic Freedom in Indonesia: Dismantling Soeharto-era Barriers by Joseph Saunders, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1998)
"After the crackdowns in the 1970s, political controls over academic life in Indonesia ... This uncertainty, together with periodic government crackdowns on ..."

7. Fires Across the Water: Transnational Problems in Asia by James Shinn (1998)
"Stiff anti-immigrant crackdowns and laws often offend the source country whose nationals are arrested or deported. ..."

8. Human Rights Watch World Report 1999 by Human Rights Watch Staff (1998)
"crackdowns on Student Protest In many countries, governments responded to student protests with violent crackdowns and at times the indiscriminate use of ..."

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