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What does crackdown mean?

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Noun
  1. Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement
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Boy racers face seeing their cars behind bars as part of a Maldon police crackdown on reckless driving.
Since then, the Chirac government has made the crackdown on anti-Semitism a top priority.
The newspaper quoted disgruntled, raddled hippies who complained that a police crackdown had squeezed out their regular supplies.
Want evidence that the steroid crackdown is working and the players aren't using using juice as much?
As part of the crackdown against absenteeism, the parents of persistent truants have been threatened with tougher fines and jail sentences.
Latino and black young people have been hit hardest by the crackdown on juveniles.

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