freeze
verb (MONEY/PROPERTY) /friːz/ (froze, frozen)Definition
› [T] To freeze something such as pay or prices is to fix them at a particular level and not allow any increases: The government has frozen pensions until the end of next year.Value and price decreasesNot able to be changedKeeping and staying the same › [T] to officially and legally prevent money or property from being used or moved: When it was obvious the company was going bankrupt, the government ordered all their assets to be frozen.Value and price decreases
(Definition of freeze verb (MONEY/PROPERTY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a leopard can't/doesn't change its spots idiom
- be no hard and fast rules idiom
- burn your boats/bridges idiom
- congenital adjective
- continuity noun
- finally adverb (CERTAINLY)
- firm verb (STOP CHANGING)
- fixed adjective (ARRANGED)
- fixity noun
- hard line noun
- inflexible adjective
- ingrained adjective (BELIEFS)
- institutionalized racism noun
- irredeemable adjective
- irreducible adjective
- irrevocable adjective
- Rubicon noun
- stasis noun
- stuck adjective
- uncompromising adjective
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