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to grind to a halt or standstill

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  • grind to a halt/standstill — ► to stop gradually: »Business ground to a standstill during the bad weather. Main Entry: ↑grind …   Financial and business terms

  • grind to a halt — grind to a halt/standstill ► to stop gradually: »Business ground to a standstill during the bad weather. Main Entry: ↑grind …   Financial and business terms

  • grind to a halt — grind to a halt/standstill if an organization, system, or process grinds to a halt, it stops working, usually because of a problem. If the computer network crashed, the whole office would grind to a halt …   New idioms dictionary

  • grind to a halt — verb Coming to a standstill, or ceasing to be productive or make progress, due to an obstacle. Work on the new high rise ground to a halt as contractor tried to deal with all the red tape …   Wiktionary

  • grind to a standstill — grind to a halt/standstill if an organization, system, or process grinds to a halt, it stops working, usually because of a problem. If the computer network crashed, the whole office would grind to a halt …   New idioms dictionary

  • grind to a standstill — grind to a halt/standstill ► to stop gradually: »Business ground to a standstill during the bad weather. Main Entry: ↑grind …   Financial and business terms

  • grind — ▪ I. grind grind 1 [graɪnd] noun [singular] 1. something that is hard work and physically or mentally tiring: • I find the journey to work a real grind. grind of • the relentless grind of international conferences 2 …   Financial and business terms

  • standstill — noun complete immobility; halt The wreck brought traffic to a standstill for hours. Syn: deadlock, grind, halt, idle, impasse …   Wiktionary

  • grind to — phr verb Grind to is used with these nouns as the object: ↑halt, ↑standstill …   Collocations dictionary

  • discontinuance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of continued connection Nouns discontinuance, discontinuity; disruption; disjunction, disconnection, interruption, letup, break, gap, interval, caesura; broken thread; intermission, half time. Slang …   English dictionary for students

  • stand still — verb remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile (Freq. 7) Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by • Ant: ↑move • Derivationally related forms: ↑standstill • Hyponyms: ↑freeze …   Useful english dictionary

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