- grind to a halt/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. 2012.
grind to a halt/standstill
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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
grind to — phr verb Grind to is used with these nouns as the object: ↑halt, ↑standstill … Collocations dictionary
standstill — noun complete immobility; halt The wreck brought traffic to a standstill for hours. Syn: deadlock, grind, halt, idle, impasse … Wiktionary
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
