restriction
Other forms: restrictions
A restriction is a limitation or a restraint, like when a size restriction keeps you from jumping on a toddler trampoline and bouncing the smaller kids a mile up in the air.
Usually a restriction is in place because a limit needs to be set. Common sense would keep you from putting a bowling ball in a paper bag; you wouldn’t need a restriction to tell you not to do it. Sometimes a restriction is the result of doing something bad or misusing a privilege, as when your parents put a restriction on video gaming to limit your time in front of the TV.
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an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)synonyms: limitationtypes:load-sheddingcutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supplyarms controla limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a countryhold-downa limitation or constraintfreezefixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular levelclampdownsudden restriction on an activityhiring freezea freeze on hiringprice freezea freeze of prices at a given levelwage freezea freeze of wages at a given leveltype of:
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the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)“the restriction of the infection to a focal area”synonyms: confinementtypes:classificationrestriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized peoplecircumscriptionthe act of circumscribingconstraintthe act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of othersswaddling clothesrestrictions placed on the immaturetype of:restraintthe act of controlling by restraining someone or something
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a principle that limits the extent of something“I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements”synonyms: limitation, stricturetypes:narrownessa restriction of range or scopequantificationa limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')restrainta rule or condition that limits freedomfloodgatesomething that restrains a flood or outpouringtype of:
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