RESTRAINTS meaning: Limitations imposed to control actions

We found 12 dictionaries that define the word restraints:

General (8 matching dictionaries)

restraints: Merriam-Webster
restraints: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
restraints: Collins English Dictionary
restraints: Vocabulary.com
Restraints, restraints: Wordnik
restraints: Wiktionary
restraints: Dictionary.com
Restraints: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

restraints: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
restraints: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

restraints: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Restraints: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (restraint)

▸ noun: (countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures
▸ noun: (uncountable) control or caution; reserve
▸ Also see restraint

Opposite:

freedom, liberty, unrestrained

Types:

handcuffs, zip ties, rope, leather cuffs, ankle cuffs, straitjacket, hogtie, ball gag, more...

Phrases:

head restraints, Passive Restraints, restraints of trade, restraints on alienation, more...

Adjectives:

such, legal, physical, voluntary, moral, vertical, social, constitutional, certain, external, prior

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