CIRCUMSCRIBE


Meaning of CIRCUMSCRIBE in English

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

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