to become cold enough to become solid:

If you freeze food, you preserve it by storing it at a very low temperature.

Someone such as a police officer who says freeze is ordering you not to move except as the person tells you:

To freeze something such as pay or prices is to fix them at a particular level and not allow any increases:

To freeze money or property is to officially and legally prevent it from being used or moved:

a period when the air temperature is low enough so that water will freeze:

A freeze is a temporary stopping of something:

[ T ] ECONOMICS, FINANCE to fix prices, income levels, interest rates, etc. at a particular level and not allow any increases:

[ T ] LAW, BANKING if a government or court freezes someone's bank account, money, assets etc. it legally prevents them from using any of it:

[ I ] IT if a computer freezes or a computer screen is frozen, it suddenly stops working and the screen will not change even when you use the keyboard or mouse:

[ T ] to officially stop an activity or process for a period of time:

ECONOMICS a decision to fix prices, income levels, interest rates, etc. at a particular level and not allow any increases:

an official decision to stop an activity from continuing for a period of time:

LAW an official order, for example, from a judge or government, that prevents money or property from being used or moved: