noun
1 limit/control on sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ voluntary
▪
agreements on voluntary export ~s
▪ conventional
▪
What happens when the conventional ~s on human cruelty are removed?
▪ physical
▪
Sometimes the care workers need to use physical ~ on the hospital patients.
▪ budget , budgetary , economic , financial , fiscal , monetary , pay ( esp. BrE ), spending , wage ( esp. BrE )
▪
the government's need to exercise fiscal ~
▪
talks on voluntary wage ~
▪ constitutional , government , judicial , legal , political , regulatory
▪ cultural , moral , social
▪ unconstitutional , unlawful
▪
guilty of the charge of unlawful ~
▪ time
▪
We did the best we could within the limited time ~s.
▪ prior
▪
They balked at the notion of prior ~s on research.
VERB + RESTRAINT
▪ impose , use
▪ remove
PREPOSITION
▪ without ~
▪
Prices continued to rise without ~.
▪ ~ on , ~ upon
▪
The government imposed ~s on spending.
2 behaving in a calm/moderate way
ADJECTIVE
▪ considerable , great , remarkable
▪ admirable
▪ emotional , sexual
VERB + RESTRAINT
▪ have
▪
Somehow I had the ~ not to tell Peter that.
▪ exercise , practise/practice , use
▪
Journalists have exercised remarkable ~ in not reporting all the sordid details of the case.
▪
The media should have used more ~ in disclosing his private life.
▪ demonstrate , exhibit , show
▪ call for , urge
▪ require
▪
The role requires a certain ~.
▪ abandon
▪
He abandoned all ~ and yelled at the top of his lungs.
PREPOSITION
▪ with ~
▪
They reacted with ~.
▪ without ~
▪
Finally he was able to cry properly, without ~.
▪ ~ by
▪
The government called for ~ by both sides.