0 a situation in which someone starts to deal with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way:
There has been a series of government crackdowns on safety in factories.
The police are having a crackdown on cyclists without lights.
The school has started a crackdown on pupils who turn up late.
But they remained too few and too scattered to undermine the left or to prevent the government's devastating crackdown on the union in 1985-86.
Moreover, a government crackdown on these annuities makes sense on progressivity grounds.
Under a one-party system, crackdown on underworld criminal groups may indiscriminately impinge upon the space for legitimate organized social or political activities.
Their wildcat actions undermined the leadership's ability to keep its bargain with the government and risked a repeat of the 1978 crackdown.
Charging instead that workers' grievances were based on communist agitation, they argued for a crackdown on radicalism and labor unrest.
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