adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a damaging/crippling strike (= having a bad effect on an industry )
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The company now faces the prospect of a crippling strike.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A leadership style that has made her a remarkably effective prime minister would be a crippling liability in the White House.
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Alzheimer's disease is one of the most crippling and distressing diseases of the elderly.
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Fines were also imposed and crippling fines were threatened.
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In one year under Labour, borrowing reached a crippling 9 percent. - the equivalent of £55 billion today.
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Most of the surrounding marshland had fallen to the crippling infection.
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These protests were added to a series of crippling miners' strikes which had begun in early March.
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This had a crippling effect on the worse off at a crucial stage of recovery from the Famine.
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Within large-scale industry, the crippling specialisation of the individual machine-minders is one aspect of the division of labour.