[
UK
/stˈeɪbəlˌaɪz/
]
VERB
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support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
brace your elbows while working on the potter's wheel -
make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium
The drug stabilized her blood pressure
stabilize prices -
become stable or more stable
The economy stabilized
How To Use stabilise In A Sentence
- Since the ban on the trade in ivory in 1989, elephant populations in Africa have generally stabilised and in some areas are increasing.
- The cost of our imports also seems to have stabilised. Times, Sunday Times
- Now, they hold him responsible for planning to destabilise the country.
- He oversaw the work and left to return north on Friday satisfied that the situation had been stabilised.
- The forint will strengthen or at least stabilise, the markets will calm and the economy slowly recover, he added. Times, Sunday Times
- IAI and Cyclone Aviation Products Ltd in Carmiel manufacture the ventral fins, rudders, horizontal stabilisers and engine access doors.
- When the battlefront stabilised, the four found they were trapped on the wrong side of the trenches. Times, Sunday Times
- Bitumen emulsions are a dispersion of bitumen in an aqueous continuous phase, stabilised by the addition of an emulsifier.
- So if the UK reacts differently to changes in the world economy from the rest of the eurozone, the only lever left to stabilise the economy is fiscal policy.
- The Reserve Bank is relaxed about that fiscal stimulus and believes that it will act as a stabiliser, given that economic growth is forecast to decline during the 2004-06 period.
