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Restrict   /ristrˈɪkt/   Listen
Restrict

verb
(past & past part. restricted; pres. part. restricting)
1.
Place restrictions on.  Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back.
2.
Place under restrictions; limit access to.  Antonym: derestrict.
3.
Place limits on (extent or access).  Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrain, throttle, trammel.  "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"
4.
Make more specific.  Synonym: qualify.



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"Restrict" Quotes from Famous Books



... let him understand explicitly that I preferred to keep some of my clothes for my own personal wearing; also, I put his magnificence upon an allowance of cologne-water, and actually was so cruel as to restrict him to one dozen of my cambric handkerchiefs. Dolph was particularly huffy about it, and I had to talk to him like a father, ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... restrict her to so cold a response, and that by second-hand, may she not be tempted to write to him ...
— The Good Time Coming • T. S. Arthur

... more serious, for no troupe could afford to act only twice a week. The order if carried out would mean the ruin of the Fortune and the Globe Companies. But it was not carried out. The actors, as we learn from Henslowe's Diary, did not restrict themselves to two plays a week. Why, then, did the Lords issue this order, and why was it not put into effect? A study of the clever way in which Alleyn, Nottingham, and the Privy Council overcame the opposition of the puritanical officers of St. Giles who ...
— Shakespearean Playhouses - A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration • Joseph Quincy Adams

... the love and trust of his work people. In spite of all his seemingly reckless expenditure upon purely philanthropic work, the mills yielded an enormous profit. But Owen was constantly in conflict with his business associates, who sought to restrict his philanthropic expenditures, with the result that he was compelled again and again to change partners, always securing their interests and returning them big profits upon their investments, until finally, in 1829, ...
— Socialism - A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles • John Spargo

... government with serious difficulties. It was resolved to increase the revenue by prohibiting colonial distillation. This trade had been often interrupted by the ordinances of the governors, but when the crown ceased to purchase wheat at a high fixed price it was deemed unfair to the farmer to restrict the local market for his produce. Duties were imposed, but they discriminated between sugar and cereals, and between colonial and imported grain. This distinction offered ample opportunity for evasion. The distillers employed ...
— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West


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