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UK
/ɹɪstɹˈeɪnt/
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[ US /ɹiˈstɹeɪnt, ɹɪˈstɹeɪnt/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈstɹeɪnt, ɹɪˈstɹeɪnt/ ]
NOUN
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a rule or condition that limits freedom
restraints imposed on imports
legal restraints -
the state of being physically constrained
dogs should be kept under restraint -
lack of ornamentation
the room was simply decorated with great restraint -
a device that retards something's motion
the car did not have proper restraints fitted -
discipline in personal and social activities
he was a model of polite restraint
she never lost control of herself -
the act of controlling by restraining someone or something
the unlawful restraint of trade
How To Use restraint In A Sentence
- Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
- He was angry but managed, with great self-restraint, to reply calmly.
- He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick.
- The regulation might almost be judged in restraint of trade. Times, Sunday Times
- Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
- Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.
- Semi-structured interviews took place in a private room in the hospital ward, usually within 12 hours after each restraint event.
- There is skepticism about the impact and the unrestraint spending they're seeing out of this democratic Congress. CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2009
- But action filmmaking knows no restraint and so the plotline galumphs on to its inevitable conclusion.
- Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
