tightening
Noun
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The act of making something tighter (synset 100148877)
"the tightening of economic controls"is a type of: adjustment, alteration, modification - the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)subtypes: take-up - the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
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