Dictionary Definition
restraint
Noun
1 the of act controlling by restraining someone
or something; "the unlawful restraint of trade"
2 discipline in personal and social activities;
"he was a model of polite restraint"; "she never lost control of
herself" [syn: control]
[ant: unrestraint]
3 the state of being physically constrained;
"dogs should be kept under restraint" [syn: constraint]
4 a rule or condition that limits freedom; "legal
restraints"; "restraints imposed on imports"
5 lack of ornamentation; "the room was simply
decorated with great restraint" [syn: chasteness, simplicity]
6 a device that retards something's motion; "the
car did not have proper restraints fitted" [syn: constraint]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪnt
Noun
Translations
something that restrains, ties, fastens or
secures
- Finnish: side
- Portuguese: amarra
control or caution; reserve
- Finnish: itsehillintä, maltti, pidättyväisyys
Extensive Definition
wiktpar restraint
General
- Physical
restraint, the practice of rendering people helpless or keeping
them in captivity by means such as handcuffs, ropes, straps, etc.
- Medical restraint, a subset of general physical restraint used for medical purposes
- See safety harness
- The use of any type of brake etc. to slow down or stop any moving machine or vehicle
In legal terminology
- Restraint of trade, a restriction on a person's freedom to conduct business
- Restraint on alienation, in property law, a clause that seeks to prohibit the recipient of property from transferring his or her interest
- Judicial restraint, a theory of judicial interpretation that encourages judges to limit the exercise of their own power
- Prior restraint, a government's actions that prevent materials from being distributed
- Vertical restraints, agreements between firms or individuals at different levels of the production and distribution process haha u suck
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Atticism, Oregon boat, abnegation, absolutism, abstinence, aloofness, aplomb, appropriateness,
arrest, arrestation, arrestment, assurance, backwardness, balance, ban, bashfulness, bilbo, blankness, block, blockage, blocking, bond, bond service, bondage, bonds, bounds, bracelets, bridle, caging, calm, calmness, camisole, captivity, censorship, chains, chasteness, chastity, check, chilliness, circumscription,
clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, clogging, closing up, closure, coaction, coldness, collar, comeliness, composure, compulsion, compulsiveness, confidence, confinement, conservatism, constraint, constriction, continence, control, cool, coolness, correctness, cramp, cuffs, curb, curtailment, debt slavery,
delay, delimitation, deprivation
of freedom, detachment, detainment, detention, dignity, directness, discipline, discreetness, discretion, discrimination, disenfranchisement,
disfranchisement,
dispassion, distance, distinction, domination, ease, elegance, elegancy, embargo, enforcement, enslavement, enthrallment, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, evenness, expressionlessness,
felicitousness,
felicity, fetter, fetters, feudalism, feudality, finish, fittingness, fixation, flow, flowing periods, fluency, foot-dragging, forbearance, forcing, frigidity, frostiness, frugality, gag, gentleness, golden mean, good
taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, guardedness, gyves, halter, hamper, hampering, handcuffs, happy medium,
helotism, helotry, hindering, hindrance, hobbles, holdback, holdup, hopples, iciness, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, impediment, impersonality, impoundment, inaccessibility,
indentureship,
independence,
inevitability,
inhibition, interdict, interdiction, interference, interruption, introversion, irons, irresistibility,
judiciousness,
juste-milieu, leading strings, leash, lenity, let, level head, levelheadedness,
limit, limitation, limpidity, lockup, lucidity, manacle, meden agan, middle way,
mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, modesty, muzzle, naturalness, neatness, necessity, negativism, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in
excess, nuisance value, obligation, obligement, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, pacifism, pellucidity, penning, peonage, perspicuity, pillory, plainness, poise, polish, possession, presence of mind,
propriety, proscription, prudence, psychological block,
purity, quietness, refinement, rein, reins, remoteness, renouncement, renunciation, repose, repression, reserve, reservedness, resistance, restrainedness, restraints, restriction, retardation, retardment, reticence, reticency, retirement, retiring
disposition, seemliness, self-abnegation,
self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-conquest,
self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government,
self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, serenity, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, setback, shackle, shackles, simplicity, slavery, smoothness, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, squeeze, stability, standoffishness,
steadiness, stocks, straightforwardness,
straightjacket,
strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, stricture, subduedness, subjection, subjugation, suppression, taboo, taste, tastefulness, temperance, temperateness, terseness, tether, thrall, thralldom, trammel, trammels, tranquillity, tyranny, unaffability, unaffectedness, unapproachability,
uncongeniality,
undemonstrativeness,
understatement,
unexcessiveness,
unexpansiveness,
unextravagance,
unextremeness,
unobtrusiveness,
vassalage, via media,
villenage,
well-regulated mind, withdrawal, withdrawnness, yoke