"tighten" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tighten verbo

tighten + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 30
tighten controls • tighten one's grip • tighten one's belts • tighten security • tighten one's hold • tighten policy • tighten one's arms • ...
(2) grip, hold, screw, grasp
Kolokacji: 4
(3) belt, arm, noose
Kolokacji: 3
(6) finger, hand, fist
Kolokacji: 3
(7) requirement, enforcement
Kolokacji: 2
  • Earlier this month, American had said that, effective next Monday, it would increase fares and tighten advance-purchase requirements on its cheapest tickets.
  • Proposition 42 would tighten academic requirements for an athletic scholarship.
  • He said he had also tightened requirements to assure states that do so maintain the quality and array of services provided to children in Head Start.
  • Reforms to tighten award-qualification requirements are also being discussed.
  • Although the proposal would eliminate the teaching stipulation, it would tighten other requirements.
  • The city has also initiated action against existing sewage-treatment plants and convinced the state to tighten requirements for new ones.
  • The other weapon open to the Fed, which besides controlling official interest rates helps regulate the financial system, would be to tighten requirements for margin lending.
  • The rule, which is to take effect in the fall of 1990, tightened academic requirements for scholarship aid to incoming athletes.
  • American Airlines put aside its plan to raise fares and to tighten advance-purchase requirements on its cheapest tickets.
  • The Nuclear Safety Directive must be revised in order to tighten requirements.
2. tighten enforcement = dociśnij wprowadzanie w życie tighten enforcement
verbo + tighten
Kolokacji: 4
try tightening • begin tightening • keep tightening • finish tightening
tighten + preposición
Kolokacji: 25
tighten up • tighten around • tighten on • tighten into • tighten with • ...
tighten + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 31
tighten further • tighten slightly • tighten painfully • tighten suddenly • slowly tighten • ...

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