economic strangulation

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   punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them

   “the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party”

   Broaderpunishment

Questions about economic strangulation

What does economic strangulation mean?

economic strangulation means "punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them".

Is economic strangulation a common word?

economic strangulation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.