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/ɹɪstɹˈɪkʃən/
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[ US /ɹiˈstɹɪkʃən/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈstɹɪkʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
the restriction of the infection to a focal area - an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
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a principle that limits the extent of something
I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements
How To Use restriction In A Sentence
- Methods: The restriction endonuclease and T 4 DNA ligase were used to construct the vector plasmid.
- There are at least a dozen other restrictions aimed at preserving blood supply safety.
- The restriction of annual export quota is deleted.
- Doesn't that place restrictions on the "hards", creating frustrations for them? Low floor, high ceiling OR low floor, wide walls?
- Restrictions governing building in London were first issued by royal proclamation.
- This week has been chaos on the railways as so many lines need to be checked and speed restrictions have been introduced.
- Secret ballot enables the voters to express their free will on the candidates without any restriction.
- Reporting restrictions on the trial have been lifted .
- But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law.
- This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11 Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
