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restriction
  1. The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
  2. A regulation or limitation that restricts.
  3. (biology) The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “There is a restriction in the contract on the provision of information.”
      “Most courses have a board that votes on such matters as restriction of walking to specific times.”
      “The extradition measure, viewed as a restriction on freedom of movement, would therefore be incompatible with Union law.”
restrictionism
  1. (economics) The advocacy of restrictions on free trade, immigration etc.
  2. Examples:
    1. “If the Common Market should move toward protectionism and restrictionism, it would undermine its own basic principles.”
      “Yes, his pretended interest in certain policy-adjacent attitudes protectionism, restrictionism, nationalism, etc. corresponds nicely to the concerns of whole swaths of perennially underserved Republican constituencies.”
      “It is impossible to get a grip on the full economic costs of restrictionism.”
restrictionist
  1. A supporter of placing restrictions on something
  2. Examples:
    1. “In 2010, the platform of the Republican Party of Texas included some of the country's most restrictionist language on immigration.”
      “By then, Wilson had been elected governor and morphed into a restrictionist.”
      “At this point, Roosevelt worked to ease immigration restrictions in the midst of an America turned restrictionist in its immigration policies.”
restrictiveness
  1. The state of being restrictive.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The restrictiveness in the use of anonymous witnesses has been highlighted in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.”
      “The study also points out that a number of other investment restrictiveness surveys produce different results.”
      “However, important features of parenting, such as restrictiveness or psychological control, coerciveness, autonomy granting, and warmth, are not addressed.”
restrictedness
  1. The quality of being restricted.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The town was medieval, surrounded by a wall, which symbolized for Tillich the narrowness and restrictedness of his environment.”
      “Some words should be added in order to introduce this social group we worked with as well as to accentuate both the restrictedness and specific nature of our material.”
      “Interestingly, range restrictedness, i.e. the alternative estimation of endemism examined in this study, was not found to be significantly related to plant vulnerability.”
restrictor
  1. Anything that restricts
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Those races stand out because restrictor plates are put on the carburetors to keep horsepower down.”
      “With his speed he should be a factor for a top ten finish at Mid Ohio but he admits the greater restrictor will be a hindrance.”
      “It is mapped onto the restrictor of the generic quantifier, hence an inductivist reading is available.”
restrictionists
  1. plural of restrictionist
restrictions
  1. plural of restriction
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She suffers near constant pain and the restrictions on her life increase as time passes.”
      “Two more conventional measures, species-specific size restrictions and catch limits, appear in only a small number of fishing accords.”
      “The council will also take control of the loading and waiting restrictions in place within the district.”
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