#tightening  the act of making something tighter; "the tightening of economic controls"
  exclusion:  loosening
  supertype:  alteration__modification__adjustment  the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
  subtype:  take-up  the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in

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