1 to prevent a company, country, or economy from using money or other assets:
Underdeveloped financial markets limit the availability of credit, immobilizing large amounts of cash that could be used more productively.
2 to prevent someone or something from being able to move or operate:
This produces a kind of heritage constipation which totally immobilizes us.
In other experiments, fish were immobilized by cutting the spinal cord.
Fish were immobilized by cutting the spinal cord, which did not prevent saccadic eye movements.
However, untreated sera (with complement) from both groups immobilized theronts (titres 128-256) (table 7).
Without in-house facilities, even a relatively minor problem like a vacuum leak can immobilize an expensive facility.
Clearly, the mobilized labourers were immobilized at the same time.
These binding sites are immobilized monoclonal antibodies reacting specifically with cortisol.
Microsequencing of protein electrotransferred onto immobilizing matrices from polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; application of insoluble protein.
