restriction

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/ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/

noun 3

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

severe, tight, tough | major

petty

The company decided to drop petty restrictions on what employees could wear to the office.

absolute | further

artificial

The government imposed artificial restrictions on plastic bag use to protect the environment.

proposed | contractual, government, legal, statutory | advertising, age, credit, financial, import, parking, price, reporting | speed, time, trade, travel, visa

VERB + RESTRICTION

impose, introduce, place

The school placed strict restrictions on mobile phone use during lessons.

lift, remove

The government decided to remove restrictions on international travel after the pandemic ended.

be subject to

All visitors to the nature reserve are subject to strict restrictions on where they can walk.

RESTRICTION + VERB

affect sth, apply

New parking restrictions affect commuters in the city center every weekday morning.

RESTRICTION + NOUN

order

PREP

without ~

My grandmother could move around the house without restriction even after her injury.

~ on/upon

The government placed restrictions on how much sugar companies could add to children's cereals.

Definitions

noun

The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.

A regulation or limitation that restricts.

In the year 1819, Sir Robert Peel brought in a bill, and which finally passed both houses, and received the royal assent on the 2nd July, for continuing the restrictions contained in several acts of parliament, on payments in cash by the bank of England, until the 1st day of May, 1823, and to provide for the gradual resumption of cash payments: [...] VIII. After the first day of May, 1822, the bank of England, if they shall think fit, may pay or exchange the lawful coin of the realm, for any of their own notes, payable on demand.

The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.

Echinorhagata is likewise supported by typical echinoderid autapomorphies, inclusive the number of trichoscalids that is reduced from 14 to 6; restriction of lateral accessory spines to females only; and an apparent restriction of the middorsal spines to appear only on segments 4 to 8.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)

limitation

noun — the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by for

confinement

noun — a principle that limits the extent of something

limitation

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

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Wiktionary

Echinorhagata is likewise supported by typical echinoderid autapomorphies, inclusive the number of trichoscalids that is reduced from 14 to 6; restriction of lateral accessory spines to females only;

Wiktionary

They decided to abolish the old restriction.

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Gategno explained in a press interview that the restriction of access to the e-mail service had nothing to do with the release of the inflammatory video.

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It has recently been suggested that calorie restriction alone has anticonvulsant effects in an animal model of epilepsy.

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Mennad has a restriction order on Baya.

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