Contract
Halt
Halt verb - To bring (something) to a standstill.
Common collocations
| construction | contract construction | halt construction |
| plan | contract plan | halt plan |
Both words in one sentence
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He ground the Manhattan Project to a halt because he decided to stop working on it and instead discover if turtles' spines buckle or contract when they draw their heads into their shells.
Source: Bunny-Ears Lawyer -
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Halfway through the film, DeMeo orders Kuklinski to halt his contract work - and Kuklinski panics at the idea of losing his main source of income.
Source: Film / The Iceman
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