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brake
noun as in stopping device; check
Example Sentences
Guests last October took rides on a closed track in Cybercab and Cybervan prototypes, which lack steering wheels, rear view mirrors and gas or brake pedals.
"They do not want to take their foot off the brake here. If they suddenly start slashing the heat pump grant that's going to make the market crash," he said.
The new defence proposal recommends that "necessary defence spending" above 1% of GDP should be exempt from debt brake restrictions, with no upper limit.
This year, he's at the center of a crypto fraud case that federal regulators have put the brakes on.
So long as the federal judiciary adheres to these long-standing principles and precedents, it has represented an important brake on local loyalties and partisan politics.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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