All restriction synonyms

noun restriction

• halter — Archaic. lameness; a limp.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• dont — contraction of do not.
• noninterference — the policy or practice of refraining from interference, especially in political affairs.
• nonintervention — abstention by a nation from interference in the affairs of other nations or in those of its own political subdivisions.
• immobilization — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
• inhibition — the act of inhibiting.
• curfew — A curfew is a law stating that people must stay inside their houses after a particular time at night, for example during a war.
• blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.
• infarct — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
• grain of salt — salt crystal
• charley horse — People sometimes refer to a cramp in the muscles of their leg or arm as a charley horse.
• infarction — the formation of an infarct.
• impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
• in-difference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
• compass — A compass is an instrument that you use for finding directions. It has a dial and a magnetic needle that always points to the north.
• mosts — in the greatest quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: to win the most votes.
• limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
• interdict — Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• narrowness — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
• qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• cap — A cap is a soft, flat hat with a curved part at the front which is called a peak. Caps are usually worn by men and boys.
• encirclement — The act of encircling or the state of being encircled.
• condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• constipation — Constipation is a medical condition which causes people to have difficulty getting rid of solid waste from their body.
• embargo — Impose an official ban on (trade or a country or commodity).
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• bourne — a brook or rivulet.
• blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
• max — Maxwell ("Max") 1924–2007, U.S. jazz drummer and bandleader.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• deterrence — Deterrence is the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.
• handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
• absolutes — free from imperfection; complete; perfect: absolute liberty.
• don't — contraction of do not.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
• delimitation — delimit.
• diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
• maxes — a male given name, form of Maximilian.
• containment — Containment is the action or policy of keeping another country's power or area of control within acceptable limits or boundaries.
• hangup — Alternative spelling of hang-up.
• iron curtain — (sometimes initial capital letters) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
• dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.