stringent
rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
compelling, constraining, or urgent: stringent necessity.
convincing or forcible: stringent arguments.
(of the money market) characterized by a shortage in money for loan or investment purposes; tight.
Origin of stringent
1synonym study For stringent
Other words for stringent
Opposites for stringent
Other words from stringent
- strin·gent·ly, adverb
- non·strin·gent, adjective
- un·strin·gent, adjective
- un·strin·gent·ly, adverb
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How to use stringent in a sentence
Recent legislation in California and the EU portends more stringent privacy laws across the globe.
Splitting the atom: Decoupling audience from inventory unleashes power of pubs | Trevor Grigoruk | February 9, 2021 | DigidayDespite China’s history of stringent media control, an industry of uninstitutionalized, individual publishers has managed to flourish on social media platforms like Tencent’s WeChat and ByteDance’s Toutiao.
New rule reins in China’s flourishing self-publishing space | Rita Liao | February 1, 2021 | TechCrunchWhile the transit agency often has touted its stringent cleaning standards, which include daily and spot disinfecting at stations and on cars and buses, officials have said little about the quality of air onboard.
Metro launches pilot program to test new air filtration system in subway cars | Justin George | January 20, 2021 | Washington PostThere is a more stringent set of requirements for second-draw loans.
How to get a small-business loan from the new $284 billion PPP program | Aaron Gregg | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostWe had to be very stringent with what we bought and what we were eating.
In other words, unnecessarily stringent abortion regulation could be far more dangerous than abortion itself.
Abortion Complications Are Rare, No Matter What the Right Says | Samantha Allen | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe other would forbid more stringent background checks than those required by federal law.
America’s Most Important (and Wackiest) Referendums This November | Ben Jacobs | October 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet we do have stringent regulations regarding adoption in this country.
And is politics really cleaner when stringent restrictions are put into place?
America is in urgent need of more stringent gun control laws, as the British discovered at Lexington and Concord.
P.J. O'Rourke: 27 Sensitive, Caring, Green, and Politically Committed Reasons to Ban July 4th | P. J. O’Rourke | July 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou may keep on framing stringent game laws as long as you choose, but you cannot kill an overmastering instinct.
The Chequers | James RuncimanThe working conditions, also, are more favorable: the room is light and airy, the discipline not so stringent.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanSuch a stringent regulation of trade met with directly contrary results to those which had been expected.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertBut early in the thirteenth century it becomes evident that such stringent exclusiveness could not be enforced.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertThe treaty of Lahore was however completed, and was sufficiently stringent.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
British Dictionary definitions for stringent
/ (ˈstrɪndʒənt) /
requiring strict attention to rules, procedure, detail, etc
finance characterized by or causing a shortage of credit, loan capital, etc
Origin of stringent
1Derived forms of stringent
- stringency, noun
- stringently, adverb
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