ECONOMIC STRANGULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does economic strangulation mean? 

• ECONOMIC STRANGULATION (noun)
  The noun ECONOMIC STRANGULATION has 1 sense:

1. punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them

  Familiarity information: ECONOMIC STRANGULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECONOMIC STRANGULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party

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

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