credit squeeze1
noun
The restriction of financial credit through banks, etc., as a fiscal policy; a period of such restriction.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in The Boston Globe.
credit-squeeze2
verb
[with object] And without object to restrict the availability of financial credit (to).
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Life.
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