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stringent
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures" [syn: rigorous , tight ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stringent \Strin"gent\ (str[i^]n"jent), a. [L. stringens, -entis, p. pr. of stringere to draw or bind tight. See Strain .] Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules. They must be subject to a sharper penal ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "astringent," especially with reference to taste, from Latin stringentem (nominative stringens ), present participle of stringere (2) "to compress, contract, bind or draw tight" (see strain (v.)). Of regulations, procedures, etc., 1846.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES strict/stringent/tough ▪ The regulations surrounding the handling of nuclear waste are very strict. stringent/strict/rigorous/tough standards (= high standards that are difficult to reach ) ▪ The Marines’ rigorous ...
Usage examples of stringent.
When such defects were found on a bird, the inspector pointed them out to a plant worker, oversaw their removal, and then reinspected the finished product to make sure it complied with stringent inspection standards.
The greater, the more serious, the more stringent may be this obstacle, the more he is remunerated for the conquering of it, by those who are relieved by his labors.
That is why they are researched only in labs that meet the most stringent biosafety standards, level 4.
The Haredi community is at the forefront of the fight to delegitimize Reform and Conservative Judaism, just because they offer a less stringent interpretation of Torah.
Surely, it was argued, the contraction had been severe enough to satisfy the advocates of the most stringent Procrustean policy.
Both in the town and in the village the State reigned over loose aggregations of individuals, and was ready to prevent by the most stringent measures the reconstitution of any sort of separate unions among them.
In the following April the farmers flocked to a convention at the state capital and so impressed the legislators that they passed more stringent and effective laws for the regulation of railroads.
I never heard of one refusing to trade for greenbacks, and if the men on guard could not be restrained by these stringent laws, what hope could there be of restraining anybody else?
Though the laws against their dealing in the money of the enemy were still as stringent as ever, their thirst for greenbacks was not abated one whit, and they were ready to sell anything they had for the coveted currency.
Thyrian society by binding themselves with a code of ethics so stringent that the nongifted had no need to fear manipulation and by establishing this College, where they were rigorously trained.
Calabi-Yau shapes that meet the stringent requirements for the extra dimensions that emerge from string theory.
At home, my parents, being neither heavy moralizers nor stringent disciplinarians, continued life as usual.
He could read no more than her public mind without breaching the most stringent injunction of his training but, if she was dissembling, she was making an extremely skilful job of it.
She did know that the people who ran the main computers were potentially above the law, so the safeguards against illegal tampering were stringent.
The casting process had been reordered twice, and even now the RV bodies were periodically rotated, similar to the procedure for balancing an automobile tire, but with far more stringent tolerances.