Usually means: Limitation on number of admissions.
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  1. numerus clausus: Merriam-Webster
  2. numerus clausus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. numerus clausus: Wiktionary
  4. Numerus clausus (law), Numerus clausus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (Numerus clausus)

noun:  ("closed number" in Latin) one of many methods used to limit the number of students who may study at a university.
noun:  The numerus clausus is a concept of property law which limits the number of types of right that the courts will acknowledge as having the character of "property".


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