LIMIT


Meaning of LIMIT in English

n. 25B6; noun

the city limits : BOUNDARY (LINE), border, bound, partition line, frontier, edge, demarcation line; perimeter, outside, outline, confine, periphery, margin, rim.

a limit of 4,500 supporters : MAXIMUM, ceiling, limitation, upper limit; restriction, check, control, restraint.

resources are stretched to the limit : UTMOST, breaking point, greatest extent.

(informal) that really is the limit! : THE LAST STRAW, (more than) enough; informal the end, it.

25B6; verb the pressure to limit costs : RESTRICT, curb, cap, (hold in) check, restrain, put a brake on, freeze, peg; regulate, control, govern, delimit.

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