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UK
/kənstɹˈeɪnt/
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[ US /kənˈstɹeɪnt/ ]
[ US /kənˈstɹeɪnt/ ]
NOUN
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the state of being physically constrained
dogs should be kept under restraint - the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
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a device that retards something's motion
the car did not have proper restraints fitted
How To Use constraint 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.
- 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.
- This constraint would effectively limit the amount of vehicles that a firm could service. 2.
- Abdallah, and there is none in my day more magical than I; yet do I not make use of gramarye save upon constraint. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
