transcription, транскрипция: [ rɪstrɪkt ]
( restricts, restricting, restricted)
1.
If you restrict something, you put a limit on it in order to reduce it or prevent it becoming too great.
There is talk of raising the admission requirements to restrict the number of students on campus...
The French, I believe, restrict Japanese imports to a maximum of 3 per cent of their market.
= limit
VERB : V n , V n to amount
• re‧stric‧tion
Some restriction on funding was necessary.
= limit
N-UNCOUNT
2.
To restrict the movement or actions of someone or something means to prevent them from moving or acting freely.
The government imprisoned dissidents, forbade travel, and restricted the press...
VERB : V n
• re‧stric‧tion
...the justification for this restriction of individual liberty.
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3.
If you restrict someone or their activities to one thing, they can only do, have, or deal with that thing. If you restrict them to one place, they cannot go anywhere else.
For the first two weeks patients are restricted to the grounds.
= confine
VERB : be V-ed to n , also V n to n
4.
If you restrict something to a particular group, only that group can do it or have it. If you restrict something to a particular place, it is allowed only in that place.
The hospital may restrict bookings to people living locally...
VERB : V n to n