Usually means: Limitations or restrictions on behavior.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. strictures: Merriam-Webster
  2. strictures: Collins English Dictionary
  3. strictures: Vocabulary.com
  4. Strictures, strictures: Wordnik
  5. strictures: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. strictures: Wiktionary
  7. strictures: Dictionary.com
  8. Strictures: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Strictures: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Strictures: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Strictures: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. strictures: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Strictures: The Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  3. Strictures: Medical dictionary

(Note: See stricture as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stricture)

noun:  (usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action.
noun:  A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.
noun:  A sternly critical remark or review.
noun:  (medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
noun:  (obsolete) Strictness.
noun:  (obsolete) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
noun:  (linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants.
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