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[ ri-strik-shuhn ] / rɪˈstrɪk ʃən / SEE SYNONYMS FOR restriction ON THESAURUS.COM
nounsomething that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation. the act of restricting. the state of being restricted. Origin of restriction1375–1425; late Middle English <Late Latin restrictiōn- (stem of restrictiō), equivalent to Latin restrict(us) (see restrict) + -iōn--ion SYNONYMS FOR restriction1 rule, provision, reservation, restraint. SEE SYNONYMS FOR restriction ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM restrictionnon·re·stric·tion, nouno·ver·re·stric·tion, nounpre·re·stric·tion, nounpro·re·stric·tion, adjective self-re·stric·tion, nounsu·per·re·stric·tion, noun Words nearby restrictionrestricted, restricted class, restricted code, restricted stock, restricted users group, restriction, restriction enzyme, restriction enzymes, restriction fragment, restriction fragment length polymorphism, restrictionism Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for restrictionAlabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas have various restrictions. LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum laws take effect in N.J., Ill.|Philip Van Slooten|September 9, 2020|Washington Blade It puts a layer in there that will stall getting workers back to work and they will have restrictions that other businesses won’t have. City to Weigh Measure Giving Laid-Off Hotel Workers First Shot at Open Jobs|Maya Srikrishnan|September 8, 2020|Voice of San Diego They’re defined less by border restrictions than by the potential for domestic tourism. Airbnb CEO: The pandemic will force us to see more of the world, not less|Verne Kopytoff|September 7, 2020|Fortune By the time we started, the entire trail was open, but there were still some restrictions in the northern-most states. Inside an FKT Attempt on the Appalachian Trail|Martin Fritz Huber|September 3, 2020|Outside Online
Even now, speed limits and other restrictions make many online services virtually unusable. Podcast: How a 135-year-old law lets India shutdown the internet|Anthony Green|September 2, 2020|MIT Technology Review The restriction came as a shock to Jarrar, who frequently travels to his many international exhibitions. The Palestinian Artist Trapped in the West Bank: ‘Every Minute, for Me, Was Like a Knife in My Heart.’|Justin Jones|July 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST The restriction on the use of hands (decried by some soccer-objectors, including myself until we beat Ghana) is sensible. Up To a Point: Oops, I Enjoyed Soccer|P. J. O’Rourke|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST The hardest condition to live with for Bartiromo was the Internet restriction. He Bullies Kids and Calls It News|Brandy Zadrozny|June 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Indeed, it highlights that such a restriction should not exist at all. Sex Workers Deserve Health Care, Too|Tauriq Moosa|May 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST One would think it would take added effort, not less, to make the avatars “see” sex as restriction, instead of identity. The Video Game Industry Is Too White, Straight, and Male for Its Own Good|Tauriq Moosa|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Their present restriction and partial extermination have been due to the incursions of the warlike Malays. Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris It was then used to denote the whole of Syria, so that its restriction to Mount Hermon alone must have been of later date. Patriarchal Palestine|Archibald Henry Sayce During the first seven years of their lives their love was open and frank, showing no restriction of the regard they felt. A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes|Sanford Bell I had wished to do so, but was requested by my editor to put some restriction upon myself in this respect. The Betrayal of John Fordham|B.L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon What difference, then, can we possibly discover to exist between the Bordalese petitioners and the Corypheus of restriction? Sophisms of the Protectionists|Frederic Bastiat
British Dictionary definitions for restriction
nounsomething that restricts; a restrictive measure, law, etc the act of restricting or the state of being restricted logic maths a condition that imposes a constraint on the possible values of a variable or on the domain of arguments of a function Derived forms of restrictionrestrictionist, noun, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to restrictioncontrol, constraint, restraint, stricture, rule, stipulation, regulation, curb, check, condition, limitation, qualification, demarcation, string, handicap, lock, circumscription, cramp, glitch, inhibition |