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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stringent
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 standards mean that only a small proportion of applicants are successful.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
less
▪ The suggestion is that the central core area should be absolutely sacrosanct with slightly less stringent restrictions as you spread outward.
▪ Ten Network is widely expected to float this year. Less stringent foreign ownership limits would increase the float options available.
▪ It is less stringent than the spin selection rule, partly because the mechanisms for getting round it are more effective.
▪ State rules governing independent candidates are less stringent than rules for third parties.
▪ Precautions for experimental animals will inevitably be less stringent to allow access to scientists and their technicians.
more
▪ However, in many cases they are not entirely necessary, and their use replaces more stringent hygiene procedures.
▪ Bennett said he used more stringent criteria to determine whether independents would actually vote in the primary.
▪ These must be subject to even more stringent criticism and testing.
▪ Urine is processed separately through a more stringent filtration process than the waste water.
▪ For example, the restrictions on loans or credit facilities granted by companies to their directors are much more stringent.
▪ Federal agencies are more stringent in terms of guidelines, but equally concerned with specific goals and agency objectives.
▪ We would like to see closer control, and checks should be more stringent and more frequent.
▪ But lawmakers could vote for a more stringent penalty when the recommendation reaches the House floor.
most
▪ As a result, some countries are now slightly relaxing their most stringent controls.
▪ But not even the most stringent economies could halt the march of the inevitable.
▪ The news can not be suppressed despite the most stringent efforts to maintain secrecy.
▪ The auditors save their most stringent criticism for poor workmanship and inadequate supervision by the ministry.
▪ The most stringent standards are applied to safety, transport and environmental protection.
▪ The state has some of the most stringent air quality regulations in the world.
▪ This is already being openly described as the most stringent exercise in public spending constraints for decades.
■ NOUN
control
▪ As a result, some countries are now slightly relaxing their most stringent controls.
▪ Even with stringent controls for partisanship and ideology, multiple regression analyses show that the press had a significant influence on preferences.
▪ Every link in the egg production chain is now covered by stringent controls.
▪ Article 5 allows more stringent control of tobacco advertising by Member States if they wish.
▪ Bedtime viewing, however, is subject to more stringent controls.
▪ The great strides forward by the manufacturers led to stringent controls over sizes of engine, car etc, which changed regularly.
criteria
▪ Now, for the first time, fixed though often not very stringent criteria for appointment began to play a significant role.
▪ Bennett said he used more stringent criteria to determine whether independents would actually vote in the primary.
▪ The scheme has stringent criteria for domestic commitments.
regulation
▪ Until recently company law, with its relative freedom from stringent regulations, reflected this national belief.
▪ Edward Heath's Conservative government adopted stringent regulations to restrict increases in wages.
▪ In the latter year more stringent regulations reduced the flow, but has not ended it.
requirement
▪ If we can satisfy the stringent requirements of the number system then we have established a scale of measurement.
▪ In honest, carefully done scientific work, there is no compromise on stringent requirements for the conduct and interpretation of research.
rule
▪ Parents must comply with the stringent rules for vehicular access, which are explained in a Headmaster's letter.
▪ No other trade association is subject to such stringent rules, a tobacco industry spokesman said.
▪ Queensland set stringent rules concerning diving on the reef.
▪ Other couples are coping with the same stringent rules.
safety
▪ There are stringent safety rules governing practical shooting and, as far as Kjell is aware, the sport has an accident-free record.
▪ Since the King's Cross fire of 1987, London Underground has been forced to adopt certain stringent safety measures.
standard
▪ It is built to meet our own stringent stringent standards and more importantly, to satisfy your own exacting demands.
▪ Such a stringent standard would be politically and economically impossible.
▪ The most stringent standards are applied to safety, transport and environmental protection.
▪ Nevertheless, the Act allowed states to set more stringent standards if they wished to do so.
▪ Not for a moment do I want our standards to drop and I entirely advocate the stringent standards of the Recruitment Committee.
▪ Some publishers maintain traditionally stringent standards, but others, in a competitive market, are relaxed about quality control.
test
▪ A panel of six judges will choose winners after a series of stringent tests.
▪ And indeed, I do subject each new species I find to a set of stringent tests.
▪ Accurate planetary observations being collected today will in time lead to more stringent tests for a tenth planet.
▪ He spoke the truth but not until it had been subjected to the most stringent test - himself!
▪ It claims that the stringent tests applied to chemical additives would lead to unacceptable delays in the introduction of genetically-altered foods.
▪ The government has imposed increasingly stringent tests on those in receipt of unemployment benefit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ stringent air safety regulations
▪ stringent anti-noise regulations
▪ There are now stringent controls on pollution from all power stations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Along with automated verification, there were stringent penalties for lying.
▪ It also is important to note that admissions criteria differ from program to program, with some more stringent than others.
▪ Now, for the first time, fixed though often not very stringent criteria for appointment began to play a significant role.
▪ Parents must comply with the stringent rules for vehicular access, which are explained in a Headmaster's letter.
▪ Prices are now falling slightly after stringent budget-deficit cuts.
▪ The wording of the code includes some fairly stringent conditions.
▪ This was not the relaxed professionalism of the man of letters, but the stringent new professionalism of the academy.
▪ Urine is processed separately through a more stringent filtration process than the waste water.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stringent

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 code, and to a more stringent code of procedure.
--Macaulay. [1913 Webster] -- Strin"gent*ly, adv. -- Strin"gent*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stringent

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.

Wiktionary
stringent

a. strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe

WordNet
stringent

adj. demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures" [syn: rigorous, tight]

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.