ECONOMIC STRANGULATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them

Example:

the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("economic strangulation" is a kind of...):

penalisation; penalization; penalty; punishment (the act of punishing)

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