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UK
/kənstɹˈeɪn/
]
[ US /kənˈstɹeɪn/ ]
[ US /kənˈstɹeɪn/ ]
VERB
-
compel to behave in a certain way
Social relations impose courtesy
duty constrains one to act often contrary to one's desires or inclinations -
severely restrict in scope or extent
stiffen the regulations
tighten the rules -
to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
This holds the local until the express passengers change trains
The terrorists held the journalists for ransom
The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center
About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade
How To Use constrain In A Sentence
- However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view.
- There are other constraints on the firm's capital, however, most importantly perhaps, the takeover constraint.
- Faced by those constraints, the soldiers of the Royal Anglians face an uphill task and the official three-year time limit is already looking decidedly niggardly.
- These structural problems will act as a major constraint on any potential recovery in the housing market.
- The principle of the itinerary engine is simple: from a departure address and an arrival address, or from longitude/latitude coordinates, Maporama International's servers calculate an optimized itinerary, respecting several constraints: the shortest or the more rapid itinerary, a pedestrian or car itinerary, a multimodal itinerary Internet News: Travel Archives
- Equally clearly, in these circumstances the quantity of will be a constraint upon.
- We would expand the Smart award scheme for small companies which has been constrained by funding resources.
- So this is a linguistic constraint.
- Further work is needed at the conceptual level in this area to determine the exact nature of the constraints required.
- For the late fifth and early sixth centuries, however, he was less constrained.