crackdown

See also: crack down

English

Etymology

Deverbal from crack down.

Noun

crackdown (countable and uncountable, plural crackdowns)

1. Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement.

   Coordinate term: clampdown

   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 June 2013:

     After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.

   • 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     In the last two years crackdowns on various sectors of the economy, as well as prominent Chinese businessmen, have caused uncertainty. These have recently widened to include foreign nationals and firms, heightening worries in the international business community.

Translations

increased enforcement

• Arabic: قَمْع m (qamʕ)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鎮壓 / 镇压 (zan³ aat³)

  Mandarin: 鎮壓 / 镇压 (zh) (zhènyā), 痛擊 / 痛击 (zh) (tòngjī), 彈壓 / 弹压 (zh) (tányā)

• Dutch: repressie (nl) f, onderdrukking (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kurinpalautus (fi), tukahdutus (fi) (of protests, etc.)
• French: acte de répression
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: hartes Durchgreifen n, scharfes Vorgehen n, Razzia (de) f
• Greek: καταστολή (el) f (katastolí), πάταξη (el) f (pátaxi)
• Hebrew: אכיפה מוגברת f (akhifá mugbéret)
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• Indonesian: penggrebekan
• Italian: giro di vite, misura restrittiva, repressione (it) f
• Japanese: 弾圧 (ja) (だんあつ, dan'atsu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 단속(團束) (ko) (dansok), 탄압(彈壓) (ko) (tanap)
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• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: repressão (pt)
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• Russian: (requires an object in genitive) подавле́ние (ru) n (podavlénije), разго́н (ru) m (razgón), репре́ссия (ru) f (représsija), примене́ние суро́вых мер n (primenénije suróvyx mer)
• Spanish: represión (es), opresión (es) f, supresión (es) f, campaña contra f, mano dura m, ola represiva f, medidas represivas f pl, medidas severas f pl, ofensiva (es) f, aplastamiento m
• Swedish: nedslag (sv) n
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• Turkish: please add this translation if you can