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What does restrictive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word restrictive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.
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A restrictive clause is one which limits, or restricts, the scope of the noun it is referring to.
Evidence of greater activity at a roadside cross may be a result of restrictive cemetery policy.
In addition, because the cold is more restrictive to your blood supply, you can suffer chilblains and damage to tissue.
There is an important sense in which open Marxists are unnecessarily restrictive in their remarks about abstraction.
A slightly more restrictive exhaust system knocks 5 hp off the engine's 220 hp output.
Far gone are the days of PVC where in order to keep dry, you would need to be swathed in restrictive, heavy, and inflexible plastic rain slickers.

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