transcription, транскрипция: [ sɜ:(r)kəmskraɪb ]
( circumscribes, circumscribing, circumscribed)
If someone’s power or freedom is circumscribed , it is limited or restricted. ( FORMAL )
The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed...
There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others.
= limit
VERB : be V-ed , V n