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FREEZ/friːz/

To freeze is to become ice, or to hold pay, prices, or assets still: freeze the sample; a pay freeze. As a noun: a freeze on recruitment. Melt is an opposite for ice. Unions rejected a pay freeze. Mix-up: freezer / frozen (already in the dictionary) are related, not drop-in verbs.

Meaning

To become ice; also to hold pay, prices, or assets at a fixed level.

Examples

• “Unions rejected a two-year pay freeze after inflation stayed high.”
• “Freeze the reagent, which is the lab sense.”

Good to know

a pay / price / hiring freeze; freeze assets. Ice: freeze / melt. Noun and verb. Industrial news and biology. Not “freeze the building” for lock it.

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