stabilize
/ˈsteɪbɪlʌɪz
/(also stabilise)
verb
1Make or become unlikely to give way or overturn: [with object]: the craft was stabilized by throwing out the remaining ballast...
- Oil prices appeared to have stabilised and were likely to have a lasting effect on inflation in the future.
- The good news for first-time buyers is that fixed mortgage rates are falling and property prices appear to be stabilising.
- Martin Grayshon, of Stephensons, said prices had stabilised since last August and he expected them to remain stable, but with a possible slight rise over the coming year.
1.1Make or become unlikely to change, fail, or decline: [with object]: an emergency program designed to stabilize the economy [no object]: his condition appears to have stabilized...
- Nevertheless, the birth rate still falls well below the "replacement level" of around 2.1 required to stabilise the population.
- Levels of drug use among under-18s are believed to have stabilised in the past five years following significant increases during the 1990s.
- The first obvious effort is to try to stabilize the situation in terms of the security situation on the street.
- bearcat
- bear claw
- beard
- bearded
- bearded collie
- bearded dragon
- bearded lizard
- bearded reedling
- bearded tit
- bearded vulture
- beardfish
- Beard, James
- beardless
- Beardmore Glacier
- bear down
- bear down on
- Beardsley, Aubrey
- beard the lion in his den (or lair)
- beardtongue
- beardy
- bearer
- bear fruit
- bear garden
- beargrass
- bear hug