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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-imposed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
self-imposed/voluntary exile (=when someone goes into exile willingly, without being forced)
▪ He spoke to the media from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
exile
▪ His predecessor, Benazir Bhutto, is living in self-imposed exile in London.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Until his death, he lived in self-imposed exile in France.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He works for me, although the work is self-imposed.
▪ I intended to get down to work immediately, knowing how dangerous are unscheduled days, how fragile self-imposed plans.
▪ It's back to the dolly bird culture of the 70s, with none of the self-imposed restraint.
▪ The fiction, however, reads like an attempt to break out of this self-imposed restriction.
▪ They're not bad, in fact within the self-imposed limited parameters they're quite good.
▪ They were going to break out of their self-imposed cage.
▪ Until his death in 1980, he followed a strenuous, self-imposed work schedule.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-imposed

Self-imposed \Self`-im*posed"\, a. Voluntarily taken on one's self; as, self-imposed tasks.

Wiktionary
self-imposed

a. Voluntarily imposed upon oneself.

WordNet
self-imposed

adj. voluntarily assumed or endured; "self-imposed exile"

Usage examples of "self-imposed".

Was my restriction to the adamant sickle and the shadow-trick in the Cetus episode self-imposed or laid on by Athene, and if the former, was my motive to impress Andromeda with skill and valor rather than with magic?

The mods, likewise, are just extreme cases of psychological gymnastics and self-imposed walls that people have always used.

Driven by the compulsions of his self-imposed destiny, he won many converts on his endless circuit of speechmaking across the country.

Rarely did Richard Vallery break through his self-imposed code of formality.

Theatans would not worship him, Yahweh went into a self-imposed exile.

I decided to open my classes to include everybody, nonactors as well as actors-anyone interested in freeing themselves from self-imposed restraints.

Without waiting for his acquiescence, I pulled myself out of the self-imposed trance and smiled as the world reordered itself in accordance with my new perspective.

Mrs Edith Little had completed her self-imposed nightly task of marking the typographical errors in The Bellman and was knitting on a sweater for little Earl.

So he sat in silence, bitter in his private knowledge and angered by the self-imposed limits he had set for himself-the limits that forbade a complete revelation to those who had come to depend upon him so very heavily.

Though I was hardly finished with my self-imposed deskwork, I was thoroughly tired of cadet dossiers.

A dividing line has just been drawn across my life, and I must have the sympathy of someone who knows my past, or I shall go mad in my self-imposed solitude.

While officers of the law chopped away at their self-imposed bonds with hacksaws and acetylene torches, the Masculinists loudly intoned a new liturgy: "Women!

Up there, far above the Maelstrom, was the High Realm, where dwelt the mysteriarchs in their self-imposed exile, living in a world said by legend to be wealthy beyond the dreams of the greediest man and beautiful beyond the imagining of the most fanciful.

The only nanotechnologist Amanda could trust was Kris Cardenas, and she'd been living in Ceres for years in self-imposed exile from Selene.