freeze on

freeze on (doing something)

Fig. a policy that put a temporary end to something. The company put a freeze on hiring as soon as they took us over.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Uma	-	Hinduism, Indian, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi
Chen	-	Chinese
Tetty	TET-ee	English (Archaic)
Dima (2)	DEE-mah	Russian
Mathilda	[mə'tildə]
Nadezhda	nah-DYEZH-dah (Russian)	Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Ukrainian