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restrictive
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Word definitions for restrictive in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "serving to bind or draw together," from Middle French restrictif , from Late Latin restrictivus , from Latin restrict- , past participle stem of restringere (see restriction ). Meaning "imposing restriction" is from 1570s. Related: Restrictively ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES restrictive clause restrictive practices COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB highly ▪ However, Sharp have a highly restrictive policy which makes such development difficult. ▪ In fact, this definition would be highly ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Restrictive \Re*strict"ive\, a. [Cf. F. restrictif.] Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade. Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] --Wiseman. [1913 Webster] -- Re*strict"ive*ly , adv. -- Re*strict"ive*ness ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments" [ant: unrestrictive ] (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.
Usage examples of restrictive.
The difference between judicial enforcement and nonenforcement of the restrictive covenants is the difference to petitioners between being denied rights of property available to other members of the community and being accorded full enjoyment of those rights on an equal footing.
A politically savvy cynic could wonder if a more restrictive regime was gaining a foothold on Earth, taking advantage of the Restorationist scandal.
And as the Archerfish entered the tight, restrictive waters off Denmark, the captain was at the conn.
Work in the educational field has been undertaken by many theocentric organizations other than the Benedictine order -- all too often, unhappily, under the restrictive influence of the political, state-supported and state-supporting church.
Narrow and restrictive though it might seem to members of other castes, Khagggun themselves found it was where they operated best.
Jukes, Nams, Kallikaks, Zeros, Dacks, Ishmaels, Sixties, Hickories, Hill Folk, Piney Folk, and the rest, with which the readers of the literature of restrictive eugenics are familiar.
Hence, journalism in modern Japan was in its early development distincdy a journalism of protest, and it was to a great extent for this reason that the Meiji oligarchs so readily and frequently attacked journalists through the issuance of restrictive press laws.
In conventional terms, some satire would be considered decidedly immoral, designed to violate the norms of a moral code it regards as restrictive or wrong-headed.
Though many other of the Statutes of Ramos were rescinded in the months and years to follow, those laws forbidding the priesthood to Deryni were to remain in force for another two centuries, even when other excessively restrictive statutes against the Deryni eventually began to be ignored.
Full body armouring is restrictive and not actually that good as we’ve never yet found a way of joining the sections so that they aren’t at risk of falling apart in use.
Formerly bastions of intellectual freedom in a world of Babbittry, formerly the locus of sexual freedom and experimentation, they now became the most restrictive environments in modern society.
Nor had his friends at the BBC been backward in telling him that Tony Baddingham was a shit, or that ITV, notoriously more reactionary and restrictive than the Beeb, would be far harder to work for.
Our patent enforcement on the split-ring convolver technology is market restrictive.
All the sample entities of the enclave survived despite its deliberately restrictive situation, and a majority of the travelers through alternity also survived-but this did not enlighten the pattern-entities.
All the sample entities of the enclave survived despite its deliberately restrictive situation, and a majority of the travelers through alternity also survived—but this did not enlighten the pattern-entities.