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Stabilize   /stˈeɪbəlˌaɪz/   Listen
Stabilize

verb
1.
Make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium.  Synonym: stabilise.  "Stabilize prices"
2.
Support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace.  Synonyms: brace, stabilise, steady.
3.
Become stable or more stable.  Synonym: stabilise.



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"Stabilize" Quotes from Famous Books



... termed a "permanent" tariff law, the word "permanent" being used to distinguish it from the emergency act which the Congress expedited early in the extraordinary session, and which is the law today. I can not too strongly urge in early completion of this necessary legislation It is needed to stabilize our industry at home; it is essential to make more definite our trade relations abroad. More, it is vital to the preservation of many of our own industries which contribute so notably to the very ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... of work he wanted to do, and in course of time he went into politics. He served very efficiently as Governor of Maryland from 1836 to 1851, especially exerting himself to standardize the currency and to stabilize the revenues. Five years after his death Maryland suffered greatly from an attack by the Greboes, twenty-six colonists being killed. An appeal to Monrovia for help led to the sending of a company of men and later to the incorporation of the colony ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley

... Beset by ethnic and civil strife since independence in 1991, Georgia began to stabilize in 1994. Separatist conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been dormant since spring 1994, although political settlements remain elusive. Russian peacekeepers are deployed in both regions and a UN ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.



Words linked to "Stabilize" :   stabilization, stabilizer, destabilise, take root, destabilize, calm, root, steady down, guy, fortify, ballast, peg, beef up, change, becalm, settle down, strengthen, modify, stabilise, settle, alter



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