unrestricted
Other forms: unrestrictedly
When something is unrestricted, it means there are no restrictions placed on it. A restriction is a rule about a way that something can be used.
If your parents give you a generous allowance with the restriction that a portion of it must be donated to charity and another portion saved, you might end up with less money than a friend who has a smaller, but unrestricted, allowance.
Definitions of unrestricted
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not subject to or subjected to restrictionsynonyms:freeable to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraintall-weatherusable or operative or practiced in all kinds of weatherdiscretionary(especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as neededopenaccessible to allopen-plan(of rooms or buildings) having large rooms with few dividing partitionsopen-endedwithout fixed limits or restrictionsantonyms:restrictedsubject to restriction or subjected to restrictionclassifiedofficial classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulationconfinednot free to move aboutunfreehampered and not free; not able to act at willclosednot open to the general public
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free of restrictions on conduct“I had unrestricted access”synonyms:freeable to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
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accessible to allsynonyms: unexclusivepublicnot private; open to or concerning the people as a whole
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never having had security classificationsynonyms: nonsensitiveunclassifiednot subject to a security classification
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not restricted or modified in meaning“unrestricted verbs are usually stronger than those qualified by adverbs”synonyms:unmodifiednot changed in form or character
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