See Also: Tax Freeze(law)
Freeze-out(law)
freeze(dictionary)
freeze(2)(dictionary)
freeze(1)(dictionary)
Freeze(finance)
Freeze out(finance)
Freeze out(money)
Freeze(medicine)
freeze fracture(medicine)

freeze(2) (iou)



freeze noun1. [fri:z] LME.
[from the verb.]
The action of FREEZE verb; esp. a state, coming, or period, of severe frost. LME.
K. Field During a freeze there is no comfort in a southern house. fig.: J. D. Salinger She gave me the big freeze when I said hello.
b. spec. The fixing or stabilization of prices, wages, etc., at a certain level or figure; the prevention of assets, credits, etc., from being realized. M20.
wage freeze: see WAGE noun.
New Statesman A Socialist government should actively support a new nuclear freeze in Europe.
A film-shot in which movement is arrested by the repetition of a frame; a facility for stopping a film or videotape at a particular frame. M20.
M. Eaton The credits come up..on a freeze of Fletch's face.
Comb.: freeze-frame, freeze-shot = sense 2 above.