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:
In concert, these interactions may cause the foot of heavily infected cockles to be literally immobilized.
This system produces immobilizing institutional deadlock in the form of divided government with competing majorities in the presidency and the legislature.
The stance leg is nearly immobilized at midtransfer while the trunk gesticulates significantly.
Often, when we are waiting in traffic, we are prisoners, immobilized, forced to stop and wait.
At very low temperatures the radicals are immobilized.
Now that we had immobilized that, they were able to make their bodies more responsive.
Microsequencing of proteins electrotransferred onto immobilizing matrices from polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis: application to an insoluble protein.
Microsequencing of protein electrotransferred onto immobilizing matrices from polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; application of insoluble protein.
