restrictedadjective
uk/rɪˈstrɪk.tɪd/us/rɪˈstrɪk.tɪd/C1 limited, especially by official rules, laws, etc.:
Building in this area of town is restricted.
Membership is restricted to (= it is only for) chief executive officers.
Our view of the stage was restricted (= objects prevented us from seeing the whole stage).
A restricted area is one that you need official permission to enter because the police or the armed forces want to keep it secret, or because it is considered dangerous:
Wellington Barracks is a restricted area and anyone who enters should have identification.
A restricted document is one that you need official permission to read because the government wants to keep it secret.
Opposite
unrestricted
More examples
- Access to these buildings is restricted when school is in session.
- Job opportunities are severely restricted at the moment.
- Commercial sales are currently restricted.
- Food supplies are severely restricted.
- Progress has been considerable despite restricted resources.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limit
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- range
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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Forbidding and banning things