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What does restraint mean?

Definitions in simple English

restraint Noun

— Restraint is the quality people show when they don't do something they shouldn't do. You already ate too much cake. Now please show some restraint. — A restraint is a strap or other thing that holds a person in place, like a seatbelt in a car or handcuffs that the police use to hold someone. A baby needs the right kind of restraint to ride safely in a car. — A restraint is something that stops people from doing something. A legal restraint prevents him from going to meet his ex-girlfriend.

restraint

— noun the act of controlling by restraining someone or something the unlawful restraint of trade — noun (= control) discipline in personal and social activities he was a model of polite restraint she never lost control of herself — noun a device that retards something's motion the car did not have proper restraints fitted — noun a rule or condition that limits freedom legal restraints restraints imposed on imports — noun lack of ornamentation the room was simply decorated with great restraint — noun the state of being physically constrained dogs should be kept under restraint

Synonyms restraint synonyms

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control restriction check constraint limitation repression suppression reserve checking confinement temperance reticence curbing moderation mastery management hindrance governing forbearance curb continence suppressing stint limit inhibition duress discipline circumscription abstinence Hindrance stoppage sobriety simplicity simpleness shackles shackle self-restraint self-control restrain punishment prevent patience obstruction obstacle modesty fetter compulsion chasteness brake aloofness

Topics restraint topics

What do people use restraint to talk about?

Physical actions Move Pursue

Prevent from moving

What things are used to prevent someone from moving?

handcuffs shackles restraint cage restraint
What words describe someone who is being prevented from moving?

be under restraint bound captive in confinement held limited restricted

Person Life Sexual relations

Examples restraint examples

How do I use restraint in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I appreciate your restraint.

I admire your restraint.

Movie subtitles

And if she is to depart it in my vehicle, it will be decorated with restraint.

But if you give us any trouble here I'll have to put you under restraint.

Being governor is going to require some restraint.

With all land and water rights, and the rights to the clay pit, without restraint, forever.

The awkwardness, the restraint, the uneasiness.

Even an untrained beast has got more restraint.

You provide it of your own accord, without restraint, it's your free will. - And you confirm you're mentally fit.

If necessary, put under restraint!

Desiree you must learn a little restraint.

Your restraint was admirable, captain.

As you can see, we're under no restraint whatsoever.

You have no restraint.

In an instant, Jeanne felt all shame and restraint fall away.

This restraint left them elated. They were always together.

Look, I've decided to throw all restraint aside.

Either have her put away for observation and restraint or have your marriage annulled.

Neither is Ira. He's lost all restraint.

All that I have ever had has been given to me. Freely, without restraint.

I'm going to have that boy taken care of. If necessary, put under restraint!

He's been put in restraint.

Restraint, restraint.

These men are desperadoes Tahiti found necessary to keep under all possible restraint.

Either have her put away for observation and restraint. or have your marriage annulled.

Practice restraint.

You should have shown more restraint.

For the time being, the general council calls upon employers to exercise restraint and to avoid provocation.

Martin, a little restraint.

Keep him under restraint until further orders.

I think we should exercise some restraint, Tegana.

My negative self is under restraint in sick bay.

And use restraint in putting on your makeup, women.

Put him under restraint.

Place Dominator Toba under restraint.

He's been unusually disturbed, and we've had to impose additional restraint.

My subordinates exercise no restraint. in doingtheir duty! - Heordered to lock me in the freezer!

News and current affairs

Regional VAT rates might be increased slightly if expenditure restraint is not sufficient to offset the loss of tariff revenues due to the customs union.

I believe it is critical that the US set a very high international standard for nuclear restraint.

Any country in the same position as the US, even a democracy, would be tempted to exercise its hegemonic power with less and less restraint.

Firms will need to show visible restraint when it comes to this year's bonus round.

Behind its exalted name lay an innovation of great diplomatic significance: the introduction of an element of calculated moral restraint into international relations.

Here is where the Holy Alliance concept of moral restraint comes in.

Abdullah, perhaps earlier than most others, understood that some code of restraint was needed if the entire region was not to descend into a war of all against all.

The Spanish government, for example, could have met Spain's building boom and foreign-trade deficit with tax increases or by urging domestic wage restraint.

Neo-isolationism is not an option, but restraint - based on confidence and wisdom - is.

Though the exact details remain to be decided, such steps might include more exchange-rate flexibility in China, and perhaps a promise from the US to show greater commitment to fiscal restraint.

But a fiscal crisis calls for political self-restraint.

Voluntary self-restraint, a voluntary sharing of our own rights and privileges with a wider collective, is paramount here.

By far the most widely used instrument are anti-dumping duties aimed at imposing some restraint on companies that behave in an anti-competitive way.

The BIS argues in favor of fiscal restraint, debt restructuring if needed, and swift normalization of monetary policies - quite explicitly criticizing the US Federal Reserve's caution and the European Central Bank's aggressive stance.

The tendency is either excessive restraint (Europe) or a diffusion of the effort (the United States).

If Suu Kyi is permitted to campaign free of restraint, for both her own seat and to boost the electoral chances of her NLD colleagues, it will be clear that Thein Sein and his government are truly determined to bring their country in from the cold.

The protesters' trademark so far has been moderation and restraint; nothing would be more dangerous than violent repression.

By calling for Japanese restraint, the US stoked Japan's anxiety, without winning any concessions from China.

In short, striking a balance between the impulse toward rivalry and incentives encouraging restraint is the most important dynamic in contemporary international affairs.

They should be unified throughout the region. Regional VAT rates might be increased slightly if expenditure restraint is not sufficient to offset the loss of tariff revenues due to the customs union.

The message emanating now from the US is not one of non-interventionism, but a strategy of restraint that assumes that there are limits to American power and seeks to minimize the risk of entanglement in foreign conflicts.

Even if the unions win large wage increases - which is very likely and entirely justifiable given their past restraint - this will have only a negligible effect on Europe's price stability.

And, for now, the global balance is tipping toward restraint.

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