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verb (used with object)

to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.

Origin:
1525–35; < Latin restrictus drawn back, tightened, bound, reserved, orig. past participle of restringere to restrain, equivalent to re- re- + strictus strict

Related forms

re·strict·er, re·stric·tor, noun

de·re·strict, verb (used with object)

non·re·strict·ing, adjective

o·ver·re·strict, verb (used with object)

pre·re·strict, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
curb, circumscribe, abridge, restrain.

Antonyms
free.

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But now there is a way for consumers to restrict telephone access themselves from their homes.

Build a better search engine, rather than restrict the availability of the information.

The central bank has taken a number of measures this year to restrict credit.

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But now there is a way for consumers to restrict telephone access themselves from their homes.

Build a better search engine, rather than restrict the availability of the information.

The central bank has taken a number of measures this year to restrict credit.

Schemes to restrict the area to foot traffic worry planners who fear the famous crossroads could lose its creative energy.

They restrict legal gun ownership but there's a lot of illegal gun owners.

Pruned any time to remove tangled or weak stems or to restrict size.

Filtering and parental tools could then restrict children's access to those zones.

Rivera wants to restrict them for another reason: to fight chronic obesity, particularly in poor neighborhoods.

The new measures also restrict the ability of foreign students to bring family members into the country with them.

It has laws that restrict deforestation in the rest.

Restrict each submission to one or two well-developed proposals that have been crafted especially for us.

If this instrumentation is made available, the confusions about where to restrict flights would be resolved.

Trying to restrict a fir tree's size by pruning usually ruins its naturally attractive shape.

Commanders, however, still have the power to restrict access to preserve bandwidth or maintain security.

Of course, to the extent that such drugs pose health risks, it's prudent to restrict their use.

Chinese planners now talk of the need to restrict investment in sectors that are overflowing with unsold products.

Establish protected areas and park reserves to restrict human influence.

The symmetry would also restrict the form in which these partners can interact with each other.

Disciplines are seen as disconnected silos that stifle innovation and restrict inquiry.

At the same time, they have become cagier about explicitly revealing in what ways they restrict service.

The move will further restrict access to the remote region, and commercial and sportfishing will be phased out over five years.

Open-mesh allows you to restrict the amount of your bandwidth available to your neighbors.

With each wave of immigration the laws began to restrict who was allowed to legally reside in this country.

He hasn't actually done anything-yet-to restrict the right to bear arms.

But federal fishery managers believed the shark population was plummeting, and they have steadily attempted to restrict fishing.

These important medical uses of cloning technology urge us to be careful in our efforts to restrict cloning research.

The government is equally keen to dispel the idea, which is why this week it announced plans to restrict entry further.

Breakdowns in such infrastructures, caused by warfare or simple wear and tear, restrict water supplies and cause contamination.

They restrict extraction to make sure that oil prices stay artificially high.

And government policies that boost biofuels and restrict trade will get in the way.

Certain bees also restrict or close the nest entrance when an intruder is detected.

Nevertheless, doctors routinely tell their obese patients to restrict what they eat.

They also admit that investors could do worse if they restrict their choice of shares.

We need to restrict population growth and then start decreasing the human population.

I've known some large landowners who have had to restrict timber clearing on some properties.

At the same time, they restrict access to education for women.

More research must be conducted before such systems are relied upon to restrict pollen and seed spread, they say.

Any measures designed to restrict human population growth directly must involve compulsion to be effective.

Policies to restrict or prevent migration are risky and could lead to greater impoverishment and displacement, the report said.

Laws that limit the liberties of the general population do not usually restrict the activities of the lawless.

And the ability to restrict information is worse than a license to commit fraud, it is worse than terrorism.

If marriage is restricted perhaps the government should also restrict who has children.

Prisons can restrict the rights of inmates to nerd out, a federal appeals court has found.

And in any case the conventional strategy of lower rates may not be strong enough as long as banks continue to restrict credit.

So scarce that international organizations have been debating measures to restrict the wood's use worldwide.

The sculpture is deliberately designed to restrict movement and freeze the participant.

Britons should be discussing how to limit government influence on the media, not ways to restrict the media.

Lichtinger reportedly favors small cabana-style hotels and plans to restrict large resorts in the region.

We are working actively to restrict and/or remove copies that may be available.

Chávez and his supporters have been stepping up efforts to restrict news media coverage.

Don't restrict your thinking to a narrow definition of employment experience.

It said it may challenge the rules in court, contending that they unlawfully restrict free speech.

The bill would also severely restrict advertising for.

Trade barriers restrict the flow of students, scholars, and capital.

Russia led a procession of grain exporters to restrict sales.

They realized that although they could not restrict access to the specimens of.

Before, users were allowed to restrict access to much of that information.

Regulators are drafting rules to restrict short-selling, or trades that profit from a decline in a stock's price.

Women, for instance, might restrict their diet to stay slim.

Clients would face a lot of opposition if they tried to restrict managers' fees.

The service gives corrections agencies the flexibility to restrict offenders to specific geographical areas.

Weiner said yesterday that he would introduce a bill to restrict their sale nationwide.

However, they don't tend to restrict themselves to the categories that are beloved of those in diversity studies.

But specialist fuels and constrained cooking times can restrict their appeal.

That's true even if staffers restrict their pages to viewing only by friends.

Forcing them to restrict their profiles to certain friends is more reasonable.

Immigration policies will restrict the number of work visas available to foreigners.

She is concerned that the problem will grow unless new regulations are introduced or other action is taken to restrict the trend.

And if developing countries try to restrict those bubbles by raising interest.

Administrators can also restrict the use of an application to specific devices.

Another concern that hangs over the banks is the central government's moves to restrict credit and cool the economy.

And because the government continues to severely restrict political freedom, people are accustomed to avoiding such issues.

Many buyers seem worried about future plans by the federal government to restrict gun purchases further.

There is no need to restrict the discussion addressing abuses from big power.

The rule would limit proprietary trading at banks and restrict the investments they can make in hedge funds and private equity.

And they will also restrict users from downloading additional apps to their handheld device.

Instead, please restrict your answers to policies she implemented and positions she took as governor and as mayor.

It represents an input cost to almost all businesses, and to restrict access or overcharge is to burden the entire economy.

For example, you may restrict your parameters to lie within some bounds.

There are two main characters that enable us to restrict our match to a location within the string.

Might be more appropriate to what you're looking for, and you don't have to restrict yourself to religious universities.

At issue in both cases is whether and when it is legitimate to restrict an individual's rights in the public interest.

The personhood movement says claims that the initiative would restrict fertility treatments and birth control are fear mongering.

Modern versions of the bind command allow you to restrict zone transfers to a small number of hosts using the xfernets command.

Restrict your communication to email so that you have a written record.

If pensioners are to contribute to welfare savings, the government will have to restrict other benefits they receive.

It makes me think that you don't want to be too specialized too early, because it might restrict your job choices.

But it does restrict how many broadcasting licences a company can own.

These building plaques can restrict blood flow in the artery-a precursor to a heart attack-or dislodge and wind up in the brain.

Workers' electronic security badges are programmed to restrict access to various areas of the campus.

All attempts to censor and restrict information are bad for scholars.

Defaults cause bankers to restrict the availability of credit, which causes more defaults.

Or you could restrict yourself to the more frequently or infrequently used letter dice.

Defining the location of the pagan chieftains, while possible, would too narrowly restrict the available primary sources.

For the moment those who would restrict freedom appear to have the public on their side.

The first step in any program to clean the air should be to restrict or ban devices.

As you can see, swinging it down a little won't significantly restrict what little legroom this desk already has.

Ecologists say the only way to raise species counts is to restrict access to sensitive and overpicked areas.

We need to re-look at the laws that restrict the authorities from dealing with the severely mentally disturbed.

Furthermore, if any research facility receives a dime of government money it needs to be illegal to restrict access.

The only way to achieve this is to restrict imports.

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World English Dictionary

restrict (rɪˈstrɪkt)

—vb
	(often foll by to) to confine or keep within certain often specified limits or selected bounds: to restrict one's drinking to the evening

[C16: from Latin rēstrictus bound up, from rēstringere; see restrain]

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