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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. |
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Every Palestinian will become homeless, unemployment will be 100 percent, education will grind to a standstill, and anyone with any gumption to resist will be buried. The Transit Mixed Concrete project is necessary because without a new source of sand and gravel, construction in the San Fernando Valley will grind to a standstill, said Brian Mastin, the environmental affairs manager for TMC, which is a division of Houston-based Southdown Inc. In other bad news for landlords and retailers, Kimball predicted that net inmigration to the state would grind to a standstill, falling to almost zero in 1994 through 1996. |
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