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Clampdown vs Lockdown - What's the difference?

clampdown | lockdown |

As nouns the difference between clampdown and lockdown

is that clampdown is a sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control while lockdown is (in an institution, such as a prison or school) The confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance.

clampdown

English

Alternative forms

*clamp-down

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control
  • * 1945 , Earl Browder, Political Affairs
    • The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is merely one step towards the imposition of martial law, toward a total clampdown on all forms of peaceful struggle for meaningful change.
  • * 1994 , Vincent Cable, The World's New Fissures: Identities in Crisis
    • There is already in the EU a clamour for barriers against competing products from Eastern Europe and Asia, and for a Europe-wide clampdown on 'aliens'.

    Related terms

    * clamp down

    lockdown

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia lockdown) (en noun)
  • (in an institution, such as a prison or school ) The confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance
  • (US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.