straitjacket
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ɪt noun
1.
a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
2.
anything that severely confines, constricts, or hinders: Conventional attitudes can be a straitjacket, preventing original thinking.
verb (used with object) Also, strait-jack·et.
3.
to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
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straitjacket (ˈstreɪtˌdʒækɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: straightjacket a jacket made of strong canvas material with long sleeves for binding the arms of violent prisoners or mentally ill patients |
| 2. | a severe restriction or limitation |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to confine in or as if in a straitjacket |
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Straitjacket
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Medical Dictionary
straitjacket strait·jack·et or straight·jack·et (strāt'jāk'ĭt)
n.
A long-sleeved jacketlike garment used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person.
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Example sentences
The straitjacket of the prevailing approach meant that one understood neither the data processes nor the behavior of the economy.
Still other provisions impose an unnecessary straitjacket on the state's internal personnel practices.
Yet this budgetary straitjacket is oblivious to market demands and it risks missing opportunities.
We must find a way to contain these threats without putting a straitjacket on financial innovation and risk-taking.
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