Usually means: Limiting options or freedom available.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word restricting:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. restricting: Merriam-Webster
  2. restricting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. restricting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Restricting, restricting: Wordnik
  5. restricting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. restricting: Wiktionary
  7. Restricting, restricting: Dictionary.com
  8. restricting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Restricting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. restricting: Rhymezone
  11. Restricting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. restricting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. restricting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. restricting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. restricting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. restricting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. restricting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. restricting: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (restricting)

▸ adjective:  Serving to restrict.

Similar:
confining, restrictive, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restrictionary, suppressive, prohibitory, deterrent, suppressory, more...

Opposite:
permissive, lenient, indulgent

Types:
limiting, prohibitive, regulatory, obstructive, more...

Phrases:
limiting or restricting budgets, opposite of restricting, impeding restricting, more...

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Similar:
confining, restrictive, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restrictionary, suppressive, prohibitory, deterrent, suppressory, more...

Opposite:
permissive, lenient, indulgent

Types:
limiting, prohibitive, regulatory, obstructive, more...

Phrases:
limiting or restricting budgets, opposite of restricting, impeding restricting, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     charcoal,     olive, more...



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