restraint
Do these parking restrictions cover residents as well as visitors?这些停车限制对住户和访客同样适用吗？
These restrictions infringe upon basic human rights.这些限制侵犯了基本人权。
There are speed restrictions on this part of the road.
New restrictions have been placed on the purchase of guns.枪支的购买有了新的限制。
A restriction on the amount of duty free that can be bought has been announced.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Limiting and restricting
anti-libertarian
armlock
boundary
box someone out
box someone/something in
crippling
cripplingly
crowd
curb
curtail
keep (herself) to herselfidiom
keep something down
limit
limitation
limitative
suffocatingly
tempered
tie someone down
tie someone up
uncrippled

restriction | American Dictionary

restriction
noun[ C/U ]
us/rɪˈstrɪk·ʃən/
something that limits someone's actions or movement, or limits the amount, size, etc., of something:
[ C ]You can get a discount fare, but some restrictions (= rules about limits) apply.

restriction | Business English

restriction
noun
uk /rɪˈstrɪkʃən/us
[ C, usually plural ]
an official limit or control on what people or companies are allowed to do, or on what can happen:
impose/place/put restrictions on sthThis practice imposes unneccessary restrictions on employment.
ease/lift/tighten restrictions on sthChinese officials called on the U.S. to ease restrictions on exporting high-tech goods to China.
advertising/trade restrictions
export/import restrictions
financial/investment restrictions
[ U ]
the act of putting a limit or control on something:
restriction of sthThe concentration of retailing could lead to restriction of choice, higher prices, and reduced accessibility.

Examples of restriction

restriction
Their restriction to shallow marine environments suggests that photosynthesis was the primary means of organic matter production for these benthic communities.
The restriction aims at reducing the combinatorial complexity of rule numbers due to the order sensitivity of phrase structure grammar.
The restriction of fingerprint collection to people already suspected of a crime reinforced the tendency to rely upon punishment rather than effective state investigation.
Nor are there any restrictions on donations that parties may receive.
Depending on the intended semantics, different additional restrictions can be placed on the usage of those roles.
To enable a precise symbolic cost analysis, additional syntactic restrictions are necessary.
This was followed by moves to loosen restrictions on certain types of international transactions in order to help modernise and internationalise the financial sector.
Cotton, wheat, and tobacco farmers confronted an uncertain economic environment and were willing to accept restrictions on production in exchange for high, guaranteed prices.
Nobody wants a theory whose restrictions are stricter than those found in the subject-matter, because it will have no explanatory power.
Geminates and partial geminates circumvent the restriction, because the place features are not uniquely parsed as attributes of a segment in the coda position.
The defining aspect of the category is still the directionality of the speakers and the restriction placed on the viewer's position.
This paper's aim is precisely to characterize the computational power of several restrictions of a realistic programming language.
It is crucial that phonological restrictions often hold only within the trough, as thus defined.
A key property of such an objective function is that it keeps the method used for genetic evaluation and the restriction in inbreeding separated.
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Collocations withrestriction

restriction

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additional restriction
To overcome this limitation, which inhibits the usefulness of the results, we look for some additionalrestriction in order to improve this bound.
advertising restrictions
Many companies evaded national advertising restrictions in this way.
arbitrary restriction
All this seems to achieve is an arbitraryrestriction on improving common-law rules.
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