CURBING

Definition: CURBING

CURBING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Curb

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CURBING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Crosswords: CURBING

Books

• Beyond Nunn-Lugar: Curbing the Next Wave of Weapons Proliferation Threats from Russia (reference)

• Curbing Anger, Spreading Love (reference)

• Curbing Population Growth: An Insiders Perspective on the Population Movement (Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis) (reference)

• Curbing Unethical Behavior in Government (reference)

• Intermediate Sanctions: Curbing Nonprofit Abuse (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Looking down one street in newly completed camp (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Note garbage disposal, street lights, street curbing, water tank, and manager's house at end of street. Near McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon. General caption number. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The new leaders gained popular support by curbing inflation, restoring the economy, and rebuilding many war-damaged industrial plants. (references)

This should also serve to boosting in-country equipment sales through the curbing of handset smuggling from neighboring countries that have enjoyed lower import taxes and therefore more competitive product pricing. (references)

Children

Namibia

Although some municipal governments have installed ramps and special curbing for persons with disabilities at street crossings, physical access for those with disabilities remained a problem due to resource constraints. (references)

Civil Liberties

Canada

Some restrictions on the media are imposed by provincial-level film censorship, broadcasters' voluntary codes curbing graphic violence, and laws against hate literature and pornography. (references)

Iran

The authorities have become particularly vigilant in recent years in curbing what is perceived as increasing proselytizing activities by evangelical Christians, whose services are conducted in Persian. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has some, albeit limited, laws aimed at curbing corruption. (references)

Spain

Under the center-right administration, Spain has moved rapidly toward privatization, both out of conviction and because of the limited options available for curbing the budget deficit. (references)

South Africa

The Act came into effect in January 1999, and transferred responsibility for curbing insider trading from the Securities Regulation Panel to the newly created Insider Trading Directorate (ITD) at the Financial Services Board (FSB). The new Act provides for civil court remedies against suspected insider traders and lowers the burden of proof. (references)

Minorities

India

However, this act has had only a modest effect in curbing abuse. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

Civil society and international organizations have also contributed significantly to curbing child labor in Brazil. (references)

South Africa

The Government took action to investigate and punish some of those involved and committed itself to curbing future abuses. (references)

Trade

Honduras

The financing situation is tight because of Central Bank contractionary monetary policies aimed at curbing inflation and stabilizing the value of the lempira against the U.S. dollar. (references)

Women

China

The Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests was designed to assist in curbing gender-based discrimination. (references)

Worker Rights

Kuwait

There are laws aimed at curbing visa trading, with penalties against both employers and visa traders, but the laws seldom are enforced. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "CURBING": well curbing. Additional references.

Ending with "CURBING": cost-curbing.

Chinese 

遏制 (Containment, Curb, Curbed). (various references)

Danish

spunsvaeg (pit boards, well curbing), kabelbremserulle (cable guide, curbing roll). (various references)

Dutch

kabelwiel (cable guide, curbing roll), bestedingsbeperking (expenditure squeeze, policy of curbing expenditure, restrictionist economy). (various references)

Finnish

peruskaivannon tukilaudat (pit boards, well curbing), köydenohjain (cable guide, curbing roll). (various references)

French

bridant. (various references)

German

zügelnd (bridling, reining). (various references)

Greek 

περιορισμόσ (confinement, constraint, containment, duress, limitation, restraint, restriction, stint), χαλίνωση (restraint), άκρο πεζοδρομίου. (various references)

Hungarian

járdaszegély anyaga. (various references)

Indonesian

pengekangan (restraint). (various references)

Italian

cordonature di stabilizzazione (pit boards, well curbing), guida della fune (cable guide, curbing roll). (various references)

Korean 

재갈을 물림. (various references)

Pig Latin

urbingcay

Portuguese

guia de deflexão (cable guide, curbing roll). (various references)

Scottish

sreamadh (corrugation, curbing or checking by the nose, wrinkle). (various references)

Spanish

cuadro de entibación de pozo (pit boards, well curbing), intervención de contención (curbing intervention), guía del cable (cable guide, curbing roll), desviador (cable guide, curbing roll, deflection sheave, diverter pulley, points, points switch, pulley, turnout). (various references)

Swedish

spont (feather, tongue), block (bloc, block, boulder, pad, pulley, shoetree, stock). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "CURBING": curbings. (additional references)

Words ending with "CURBING": uncurbing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CURBING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caobang, corbina, Corbriggs, crubain, crubeens, Cuiraing, Culbin, curbling, Mccurbin, Schubring, ubring. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: brucin, cubing, curing.

-2 letters: bring, bruin, burin, cuing, incur, ruing, runic, unrig.

-3 letters: brig, brin, bung, burg, burn, crib, curb, curn, girn, grin, grub, ring, ruin, rung, unci, uric.

-4 letters: big, bin, bug, bun, bur, cig, cub, cur, gib, gin, gnu, gun, nib, nub, rib, rig, rin, rub, rug, run, urb, urn.

-5 letters: bi, in.

+1 letter: crumbing, curbings.

+2 letters: becursing, brunching, crumbling, cumbering, obscuring, scrubbing, unbracing, uncurbing.

+3 letters: barbecuing, becrusting, bescouring, bucklering, buckraming, butchering, crumblings.

+4 letters: bifurcating, carbureting, carburising, carburizing, encumbering, incumbering, lubricating, obstructing, parbuckling, rubricating, subscribing, subtracting, unbreeching.

+5 letters: buccaneering, carburetting, contributing, currycombing, curveballing, elucubrating, nightclubber, subculturing, unscrambling.