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restraint
Noun
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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.
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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.
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A restraint is something that stops people from doing something.
A legal restraint prevents him from going to meet his ex-girlfriend.
system
Noun
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A group of things that work together; a way of doing something.
This coloured paper is part of my system for keeping lists of people.