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tightening

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tightening.

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In summation, the government is tightening control on BTC, while largely ignoring larger problems of big banks transacting with drug cartels and terrorists.

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Quick take

The act or process of making more tight.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

The act or process of making more tight.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tightening.

noun

The act or process of making more tight.

Example sentences

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In summation, the government is tightening control on BTC, while largely ignoring larger problems of big banks transacting with drug cartels and terrorists.

2

Guided code splitting and type tightening (with associated devirtualization) are serious optimizations that can't be done today in JS.

3

Look at Britain, where the party of some of the richest people in the country are blabbering about tightening belts.

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Of course they could try tightening their financial belts, but that'd probably hurt their growth.

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You prefer to work in small increments, trying things out and iterating rapidly, tightening the feedback loop as much as possible.

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This is a vital role, you’ll be responsible for growing our customer base of paying customers and tightening up our conversion funnels.

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I'd venture that Google's tightening its grip on Android and making it more closed than it ever was.

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Then it could be the beginning of tightening down on incidental spending.

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Mind that the spoke will twist when you're tightening the nipple.

10

I don't think there is anything, including yesterday's fed statement, to suggest rapid tightening.

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A lot of this may come from the belief that the economy is only being propped up by the easy money policies of the Fed, and that the Fed is going to start tightening rapidly in the fall.

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There's a sense that once the tightening starts, everyone will run for the exits at once, and we'll have another 2008 situation but worse.

Quote examples

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I'm not really sure if our cargo cult of "work work work" at all costs can be upkept for very long, especially when resources per capita start tightening.

2

We're really a software organization now, and this stuff is really important, so we'd better start tightening things up" I imagine some types of academic research are in that same place now.

3

Correlation between Discretionary Fiscal Policy and Change in the Debt Ratio in European and G20 economies (1980-2011)" "We identify annual episodes of discretionary fiscal tightening in European (EU27) and other G20 economies since 1980, using, as a criterion, a positive increase in the structural primary balance.

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They went through the process of tightening down the type system by invalidating automatic casts and making void* less promiscuous and then they break that whole philosophy with a magic literal "0" that can work as a normal integer or as an address placeholder for any pointer even though it won't necessarily evaluate to address zero.

Proper noun examples

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Tightening up the odds and the trip-to-trip 20% discount means he would be seeing a nearly 10% return on every visit.

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Tightening up the rules or banning these users might be bad PR for them they don't want to deal with.

3

Tightening is not coming fast nor aggressively.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use tightening in a sentence?

In summation, the government is tightening control on BTC, while largely ignoring larger problems of big banks transacting with drug cartels and terrorists.

What does tightening mean?

The act or process of making more tight.

What part of speech is tightening?

tightening is commonly used as noun.