Synonyms for pull the plug
pull the plug

Princeton's WordNet

1. pull the plugverb

   prevent from happening or continuing

   "The government pulled the plug on spending"

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1. • Discontinue

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pull the plug

   Synonyms:
   De-escalate, withdraw life support

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1. Ed Haislmaier:

   State regulators have gone through a process, to review and shut down co-op programs that were too weak to continue for another year, … It explains why you saw a big bunch of them announce they were closing in October – because it was the drop dead [date]. If you’re going to pull the plug, October was the time to do it.

2. Patrick Clawson:

   Khamenei could always pull the plug, it’s the Supreme Leader who matters, not the negotiators.

3. Elliot Peters:

   This lawsuit is pure grandstanding and hypocrisy. We hope and believe the Court will see that and be willing to pull the plug.

4. Soner Cagaptay:

   Incirlik is important to the anti-ISIS struggle, but it's not indispensable, if Washington feels that this becomes the sine qua non in the relationship, the U.S. might pull the plug out. It would require a repositioning of forces.

5. Chief Executive Paddy Padmanathan:

   There's no point in getting excited about the rand getting devalued today or doing this yesterday, or (President Jacob) Zuma said this the day before yesterday, we have to look at it for the medium to long term and ride out the cycles, we are providing electricity and, where we do, water, two principle commodities which are fundamental to life, not just economic development, so they are the last thing which people are going to pull the plug on.