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limitation
[ lim-i-tey-shuhn ]
noun
He knows his limitations as a writer.
an arms limitation; a limitation on imports.
- Law. the assignment, as by statute, of a period of time within which an action must be brought, or the period of time assigned:
a statute of limitations.
limitation
/ ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃən /
noun
- something that limits a quality or achievement
- the act of limiting or the condition of being limited
- law a certain period of time, legally defined, within which an action, claim, etc, must be commenced
- property law a restriction upon the duration or extent of an estate
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Other Words From
- nonlim·i·tation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of limitation1
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Example Sentences
The announcement also said nothing at all about a time limitation.
“The SA-6 requires multiple vehicles to make it work, which highlights the big limitation,” Pietrucha said.
The result will have to be a limitation of the doctrine itself.
One key argument made by the plaintiff was that current limits on contributions represent an absurd limitation on speech.
The issue in McCutcheon v. FEC is the limitation on aggregate contributions to federal campaigns.
There could be no social remedy for poverty except the almost impossible remedy of the limitation of life itself.
This limitation related, so a court decided, to loss resulting from the nature of the things stored.
This evidently explains but little of the real reason both of the grant and its limitation.
It was a limitation of Thomas Hutchinson's excellent administrative mind that lie was wholly unaware of this crisis.
The poem cannot place its author among the very great poets of the world, if only because of this limitation.
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