Synonyms for tighten up
tight·en up

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1. stiffen, tighten, tighten up, constrainverb

   restrict

   "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"

   Synonyms:
   fasten, restrain, encumber, tighten, constrain, cumber, reduce, stiffen

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1. John Kilduff:

   That helped, and given the broader situation with OPEC+, I would expect for this market to tighten up further.

2. Gabe Kapler:

   We definitely have to tighten up our communication, that play didn't stop us from winning the game, but it may have stopped us from being at our best throughout that game.

3. Steve Shadowen:

   Everything started building from, 'let's do something about El Paso' into this is huge 'the negligence of the gun industry is immense,' so let's do something that tried to solve the bigger picture. we are particularly interested in getting the manufacturers going forward to change the way they do business, to tighten up their distribution systems so that they don't continue to supply unlimited amounts of guns to gun dealers who are systematically selling them to straw purchasers and others who are engaged in trafficking into Mexico.

4. Arthur Alan Wolk:

   The only way to really improve it…is to have competition, the only other thing that works, I’m loathe to say, is for the regulatory environment to tighten up the service regulations that apply to the airlines.

5. Timothy Naimi:

   I think one of the implications for the broader society is that currently our controls on television advertising for alcohol are minimal and they're self-regulatory, so I think we should definitely tighten up that some.