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pinch
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PINCH
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the act of taking into one's control by authority of law <an innocent person caught up in a city-wide pinch of drug dealers>
Related Words raid; house arrest; capture, entrapment, seizure; captivity, confinement, detention, enchainment, hold, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint; rearrest; remand
Antonyms discharge
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a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number <this labor pinch means that there'll be long lines at the checkouts>
Synonyms crunch, dearth, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want
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