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Noun clamp down has 1 sense
  1. clampdown - sudden restriction on an activity
    --1 is a kind of limitation, restriction
    Derived form: verb clamp down1
,Verb clamp down has 1 sense
  1. clamp down, crack down - repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable); "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"
    --1 is one way to restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
    Derived form: noun clampdown1
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