- curb (on something) something that controls and puts limits on something
- Governments around the world imposed curbs on travel to stem the spread of the virus.
- We are in favour of strict curbs on government spending.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + curb- impose
- introduce
- put
- …
- curb on
- (North American English) (British English kerb)the edge of the raised path at the side of a road, usually made of long pieces of stone
- The bus mounted the curb (= went onto the sidewalk) and hit a tree.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting a strap fastened to the bit): from Old French courber ‘bend, bow’, from Latin curvare ‘to bend’, from curvus ‘bent’.
Idioms
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