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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
restricted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be limited/restricted in scope
▪ The law is quite limited in scope.
severely restricted
▪ Access to the power station has always been severely restricted.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Diploma students will complete a more restricted project in June.
▪ Once again a universalist rhetoric disguises a rather more restricted reality.
▪ In Halliday and Hasan's model of cohesion, reference is used in a similar but more restricted way.
▪ A consultative approach is therefore inherently more restricted and theoretically more committed concerning the relationship between knowledge sources in anaphor resolution.
▪ Dopamine is used by a more restricted number of neurones than the other neurotransmitters and their axons do not branch as extensively.
▪ These can usefully be viewed as a repertoire from which schools taking a more restricted approach to review could learn a great deal.
very
▪ Their tadpoles can exploit bodies of water not excessively populated with competitors, and some are adapted to very restricted niches.
▪ They are, in a very restricted sense: decreasing ray average costs or increasing returns to scale imply ray subadditivity.
▪ Such systems are capable of dealing with only very restricted language domains.
▪ In language teaching we are accustomed to using dialogues which present very restricted examples of language.
▪ Another bird with a very restricted world range, it is confined to Tierra del Fuego and the Falklands.
▪ A deviant grammatical structure may occasionally be accepted in very restricted contexts, for instance in order to maintain rhyme or metre in poetry.
■ NOUN
access
▪ For example, there is the restricted access to cut-price supermarket shopping that many disabled older people suffer from.
▪ This could not be achieved with restricted access.
▪ The routes the Sweepers used were restricted access, so he had little fear of detection.
▪ Height and restricted access are the most significant factors of the fire fighting problem.
area
▪ The people who counted in royal politics were those with access to the restricted areas of the court.
▪ Doors to restricted areas, usually within offices, should be kept secure from unauthorised entry.
▪ Her new heavy industries were concentrated in narrowly restricted areas.
number
▪ The manufacturer sells to a restricted number of dealers.
▪ It involves the development of a restricted number of units of study based on themes which can be examined across the curriculum.
▪ Dopamine is used by a more restricted number of neurones than the other neurotransmitters and their axons do not branch as extensively.
range
▪ These species are found only in the Southern Hemisphere, have a very restricted range, and occur only in small numbers.
▪ Sarah Freeman sensibly assumes a fairly restricted range of kitchen equipment, and the ingredients are all basic supermarket supplies.
▪ It can be seen that the lone elderly had the lowest median income levels and also the most restricted range of income.
▪ These often demand restricted ranges of particle sizes in fixed proportions within the gravel.
▪ Most would have appeared undistinguished and unsophisticated, especially those ribbon developments with a restricted range of internal structures.
set
▪ How far is it possible to speak of a partnership at all if only a restricted set of activities is undertaken?
▪ MODULE-TYPE-IS Every module is one of a restricted set of types.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
restricted parking
▪ documents containing restricted data
▪ ramps for people with restricted mobility
▪ Since Dave's heart attack, he's been on a restricted diet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because of these false assumptions, Labour's appeal is restricted.
▪ Libertarian emphasis on the radicalizing effect of restricted employment opportunities, too, appears exaggerated.
▪ Our pupils' mathematical attainment and experience must not be limited by our restricted expectations.
▪ The restricted licence covers domestic and international goods vehicle operation for own account haulage.
▪ These societies would have the duty of distributing the dividends from the shares on either a universal or a restricted basis.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
restricted

classified \classified\ adj.

  1. arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified.

    Syn: categorized.

  2. assigned to a class of documents withheld from general circulation; -- of information or documents. Opposite of unclassified.

    Note: [Narrower terms: eyes-only; confidential; restricted; secret; sensitive; top-secret]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
restricted

"limited," 1830, past participle adjective from restrict; of documents, etc., "secret, not for public release" it is recorded from 1944. In U.S., restricted was a euphemism for "off-limits to Jews" (1947).Manager: "I'm sorry, Mr. Marx, but we can't let you use the pool; this country club is restricted."
Groucho: "Well, my daughter's only half-Jewish; could she go in up to her knees?" [there are many versions and variations of this story, dating back to 1970s]

Wiktionary
restricted
  1. 1 limited within bounds. 2 available only to certain authorized groups of people. 3 One of the classifications of the secrecy of an official document. 4 (rfc-sense: English) (context grammar English) qualified. v

  2. (en-past of: restrict)

WordNet
restricted
  1. adj. subject to restriction or subjected to restriction; "of restricted importance" [ant: unrestricted]

  2. restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man') [syn: qualified]

  3. curbed or regulated; "controlled emotions" [syn: controlled]

  4. the lowest level of official classification for documents

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "restricted".

But any Culture, even the exoteric Classical, is restricted for its full expression, in whatever direction, to certain levels of the populations in its area.

Navigation Act of 1660 the importation and exportation of goods from British colonies were restricted to British ships, of which the master and three-fourths of the mariners were English.

He also explained that the staff employed to man the floors were all specifically trained by his people, that laboratory work had been restricted to what could be done in a hastily set up unit on one of the isolated floors and that everything used by the patients was being washed with sodium hypochlorite before being directly incinerated.

The locutory was situated next to the turnstile gate, and its use was regulated, restricted, and always required the presence of a chaperone.

Whether, as Niebuhr maintains, all the free gentiles of the three tribes were called patres or patricians or whether the term was restricted to the heads of houses, it is certain that the head of the house represented it in the senate, and the vote in the curies was by houses, not by individuals en masse.

Cyclops were restricted to sound without vision, Quist forced herself to maintain calm.

Thanksgiving, to both the restricted and the restrictors, seemed to be just the sort of excuse the general would be pleased to have available.

Court of the nation the power of revising the decisions of local tribunals, on questions which affect the nation, as to require that words which import this power should be restricted by a forced construction.

Although they are a common element to many Jurassic dinosaur assemblages, stegosaurs were geographically and temporally more restricted than their sauropod contemporaries.

Its use is generally restricted to scrofulous and tubercular affections.

But if not only the things enumerated are in some one genus, but also the propositions and terms in question must be each of them significative of some genus, then we shall assert that negative propositions and terms posit certain things within a restricted field and deny others.

At the very worst the spillage could be restricted to fifty thousand barrels.

Scaling having unearthed from the recesses of a cupboard a pack of somewhat greasy playing cards the beleaguered travellers were not restricted to spillikins or paper games, but embarked on several desperate gambling ventures, using dried peas for counters, and managing the cards and the bets of all the imaginary persons created by them to make up the correct number of gamesters.

His spivs take the barter goods and exchange them for gold or silver or diamonds, some sort of precious commodity acceptable internationallyNew Sterling was no good, it was a restricted currency under the PSP.

In what was their own explicitly, as well as what was tacitly theirs, they were not so restricted as we were at home, and especially the children seemed made fondly and lovingly free of all public things.