Restraint

Definitions: Restraint

Restraint

Noun

1. The 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".

3. The state of being physically constrained; "dogs should be kept under restraint".

4. A rule or condition that limits freedom; "legal restraints"; "restraints imposed on imports".

5. Lack of ornamentation.

6. A device that stops something from moving; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "restraint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Restraint \Re*straint"\, noun. [Old French expression restraincte, from restrainct, French restreint, past participle of restraindre, restrendre. See Restrain.]. (Websters 1913)

Environment

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Restraint

Excitability

Submission; resignation; sufferance, supportance, endurance, longsufferance, forbearance; longanimity; fortitude; patience of Job, patience "on a monument", patience "sovereign o'er transmuted ill"; moderation; repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint.

Hindrance

Noun: prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage; embolus, embolism; infarct; interruption, interception, interclusion; hindrance, impedition; retardment, retardation; embarrassment, oppilation; coarctation, stricture, restriction; restraint; inhibition; blockade; (closure).

Opposition

Absence of aid; resistance; restraint; hindrance.

Crosswords: Restraint

For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola)

Naked Restraint (2002)

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Books

• Co-Constructing Therapeutic Conversations: A Consultation of Restraint (Systemic Thinking and Practice Series) (reference)

• Double Bind: A Mystery about Psychiatric Abuse, Trauma, Borderline Personality Disorder and Otto Kernberg, with Research into the Neurophysiology and Consequences of Restraint and Seclusion. (reference)

• Drawing Restraint 7 (reference)

• Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self Restraint (reference)

• Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (California/Milbank Series on Health and the Public) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Restraint and Control Strategies (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rank Restraint (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The liberty of man, in society, is to be under no other legislative power, but that established, by consent, in the commonwealth; nor under the dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact, according to the trust put in it. (Second Treatise of Government)

The power of the State is exercised without restraint, either by dictators or by compact oligarchies operating through a privileged party and a political police. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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I little guessed what a fierce restraint she was putting upon herself.

Physical compulsion or restraint was effectual, of course, while it lasted.

This chaste restraint is the shade which separates Psyche from Venus.

And Rose of Sharon had lost her restraint.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

They trust technology rather than restraint to provide the answer to future economic and environmental concerns. (references)

There are no restraint agreements such as licenses and quotas, subsidies, or import prohibitions for U.S.-made textiles. (references)

Moreover, all parties can provide telecom services without restraint, provided they observe applicable legal regulations. (references)

Children

Czech Republic

In 2000 the Ministry of Justice reported a 6 percent decrease in the number of neglect and welfare cases: 5,894 in 2000, compared to 6,207 in 1999. Laws criminalize family violence, physical restraint, sexual activity, and other abuse of a minor. (references)

India

The act raised the age requirement for marriage for girls to 15 from 18 years, but the Government does not enforce it. According to one report, 50 percent of girls in Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh are married by age 16. NCRB statistics show that only 56 cases were registered under the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act during 1999. Child prostitution occurs in the cities, and there are an estimated 575,00 child prostitutes nationwide. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ghana

Major government media outlets exercise some restraint in their coverage. (references)

Economic History

Oman

Restraint in governmental spending in 1999 led to delays in capital projects. (references)

Japan

Japan's relative lack of foreign investment also acts as a restraint on the expansion of imports. (references)

India

The U.S. also called for restraint in missile and nuclear testing and deployment in both India and Pakistan. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

During the year, police generally exercised restraint in their treatment of street protesters. (references)

United Kingdom

The remaining six deaths were due to other causes, including one that involved police restraint. (references)

Jamaica

Officers are being trained in alternative restraint methods in order to eliminate use of the baton. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

These challenges highlight the importance of fiscal restraint and structural reforms. (references)

Eritrea

Since liberation in 1991, Eritrea has been characterized by political stability, fiscal restraint, and very low levels of corruption. (references)

Finland

Under the leadership of its chairperson, Deputy PM and Finance Minister, Sauli Niinisto, the party has favored fiscal restraint, deregulation, and lower taxes. (references)

Trade

Malaysia

In some cases, such as textiles, export licenses are used to ensure compliance with bilateral export restraint agreements. (references)

Slovak Rep

Import of some commodities and from certain countries are subject to regulation, such as monitoring procedures, voluntary restraint agreements, import declarations and certificate of origin requirements. (references)

Travel

Laos

EVENTS PROGRESS SLOWLY IN LAOS, WHERE THE STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH REVEALS THE CULTURAL PREMIUM PLACED ON CAUTION AND RESTRAINT. (references)

Women

Singapore

Court orders for protection against violent family members have increased in recent years, in part because the definition of violence includes intimidation, continual harassment, or restraint against one's will. (references)

Worker Rights

Iceland

Collective bargaining agreements were negotiated in 2000, and most will expire in either 2003 or 2004. The Government played only a minor role in the bargaining process, providing mediation assistance in a few cases (through the State Mediator's Office) while generally encouraging wage restraint to limit inflation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "restraint": air bag restraint system ♦ air cushion restraint system ♦ antisymmetry surface restraint ♦ call for restraint ♦ combination in restraint of trade ♦ head restraint ♦ in restraint ♦ keep under restraint ♦ lack of restraint ♦ means of restraint ♦ place under restraint ♦ restraint factor ♦ restraint of liberty ♦ restraint of trade ♦ restraint system ♦ rod restraint ♦ self restraint ♦ under restraint ♦ wage restraint ♦ without restraint. Additional references.

Beginning with "restraint": restraint-of-trade.

Ending with "restraint": non-restraint, no-restraint, pay-restraint, self-restraint, wage-restraint.

Albanian

rezervim (reservation), zapt (circumvention), vetëpërmbajtje (composure, continence, control, cool, forbearance, poise, self restraint, sobriety), shtrëngim (clutch, coercion, compulsion, constriction, constringency, contraction, fastening, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hug, jam, jamming, jaw, pinch, pressure, squeeze, strangulation), përmbajtje (check, constraint, content, contents, demureness, deterrence, equanimity, incorporation, matter, moderation, repression, reservation, reserve, reticence, substance, suppression, table of contents, temperance, tenor), kufizim (cramp, limitation, narrowness, qualification, reservation, reserve, stint, stricture), kontroll (checkup, clutches, control, disposal, exam, examination, grip, hand, hands, inspection, mastery, monitoring, probe, search, supervision, swaddling clothes, verification). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كابح (curb, spoiler), ‏كبت (bridle, check, contain, down, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep, keep back, repress, repression, restrain, stifle, subdue, suppress, suppression, withhold), ‏كبح (arrest, bridle, check, contain, control, curb, hamper, hinder, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep back, keep down, keep under control, leash, master, press, prevent, rein, repress, repression, restrain, steady, subdual, subdue, suppress, suppression, tame, withhold), ‏تحفظ (closeness, have reservations, hedge, limiting condition, precaution, proviso, qualify, reservation, reserve, reticence, self restraint), ‏سيطرة (ascendant, clutch, command, control, dominance, domination, empire, government, gripe, hand, hegemony, hold, mastery, overriding, predominance, predomination, prevalence, reign, rule, ruling, weight), ‏عائق (balk, bar, barrier, clog, deterrent, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, embarrassment, encumbrance, fencing, hamper, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, interference, jam, liability, morass, obstruction, obstructive, setback, shackle, stick, stumbling block, stymie, tie, trammel, traverse), ‏إستجابة (echo, response), ‏إجراء (execution, procedure, step, transaction), ‏إجبار (coercion), ‏إرغام. (various references)

Bulgarian 

строгост (austerity, chastity, hardness, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity), умереност (continence, equability, gentleness, mildness, moderation, modesty, temperance), самообладание (countenance, equanimity, grip, nerve, repose, self control, self possession, self-command, self-mastery, temper, willpower), спирачка (brake, counter, deterrent, drag, stopper), сдържаност (continence, moderation, modesty, reserve, reticence, temper), сдържане (repression), въздържане (abstinence, forbearance, moderation), ограничаване (abridgement, immurement, limitation, qualification, repression, retrenchment, stint, stricture), обуздаване (bridle, curb, repression), затваряне (closing, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, locking, occlusion). (various references)

Chinese 

克制 (self-control). (various references)

Czech

restrikce (cutback, restriction, run down, rundown), zdrženlivost (abstention, continence), zadržení (detention, Parry, retention, stoppage), sebeovládaní, sebekázeò, omezení (abatement, check, circumscription, constriction, curb, cut, cutback, limit, limitation, limitations, restriction, termination, trammels), kontrola (check, checkup, control, double check, examination, going-over, inspection, supervision). (various references)

Danish

indspaending, immobilisering (immobilization), fastspændingsanordning (clamp, clamping device, hold-fast, restraint system, screw clamp). (various references)

Dutch

zelfbestuur (autonomy, self-command, self-control, self-possession), zelfbeheersing (self-command, self-control, self-possession), vervormingsverhindering, lijfstraf (personal restraint or penal servitude, punishment involving death), inklemming (clamping, constraining, embedding, encasing, fixing, fixity, housing), gordel (belt, girdle, zone), fixeren (affix, attach, determine, fasten, fix, make fast, secure). (various references)

Farsi 

منع (Deterrence, Interdict, Obstruction, Prohibition, Proscription, Rebuff, Restriction, Snub, Stop, Stoppage, Veto), نگهداری 1 (Conservation, Maintenance, Preservation, Retention, Retinue, Sustenance, Upkeep), خودداری (Abstinence, Composure, Continence, Equanimity, Refusal), جلوگیری (Blockage, Curb, Interdict, Obstruction, Preservation, Prevention, Restriction, Snub, Stoppage, Suppression). (various references)

Finnish

ruumiillinen rangaistus (personal restraint or penal servitude, punishment involving death), kiinnittäminen (fixation, implantation, nidation), kiinnipitäminen. (various references)

French

retenue (retained), répression (repression), sobriété, punition corporelle, modération (reasonableness), mesure, maîtrise, immobilisation, harnais (restraint system), frein (rein), entrave, domination, contrainte, bridage. (various references)

German

Zurückhaltung (aloofness, bashfulness, caution, diffidence, dullness, reserve, retention, retentiveness, reticence, self-effacement), Hemmnis (abashment, embarrassment, hindrance, impediment, obstruction, perplexity). (various references)

Greek 

χαλίνωση (curbing). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתינות (discretion, mildness, moderacy, moderation, patience, prudence, temperance), מעצור (balk, baulk, block, brake, check, curb, hindrance, inhibition, jam, obstacle, rein, stopper, trammel), מעצר (arrest, custody, detention, imprisonment), עצר (stay, stop, stoppage), אפוק (self control, temperance), המנעות (abstention, abstinence, avoidance, forbearance, omission), התאפקות (abstinence, continence, reticence), הבלגה (containing oneself, forbearance, holding in, suppression), גדור (enclosure, fenced, fencing, restriction), בלימה (braking, check, inhibition, shutting, stoppage), רסן (bridle, check, curb, rein), רסון (bridling, curb, harnessing). (various references)

Hungarian

megfékezés (taming), korlátozás (abridgement, abridgment, circumscription, coercion, confinement, crunch, cutback, delimination, limit, limitation, qualification, qualifier, restriction, retrenchment, squeeze, stint), önuralom (self control, self restraint, self-command, self-control, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint), tilalom (ban, don't, embargo, inhibition, interdict, prohibition, taboo), tartózkodás (abidance, abstention, abstinence, aloofness, being, constraint, coyness, discretion, dwell, dwelling, residence, residency, reticence, self-restraint, shyness, sojourn, standoff, stay, staying, stopover), mérséklet (equability, moderation, modesty, temperance), korlátozottság (narrowness), kikötés (caveat, clause, grounding, landfall, landing, mooring, provision, provisions, proviso, qualifier, reservation, salvo, stipulation), fogvatartás (detention), bezárás (closure, confinement, lockup, shutdown, shutting). (various references)

Indonesian

pengekangan (curbing), pendinding (partition, screen), pembatas (divider). (various references)

Irish

cosc (prohibition; restraint). (various references)

Italian

ritegno (reserve), riservatezza (discretion, reserve, reservedness), restrizione (astriction, bar, qualification, reservation, restriction, stint), vincolo (binding, bond, knot, lien, link, obligation, tie), sistema di smorzamento delle vibrazioni (restraint system), punizione corporale, moderazione (moderation), limitazione (austerity, limitation, restriction), immobilizzazione (immobilisation, immobilization), freno (bit, brake, bridle, check, curb, damper, handbrake, rein), controllo (audit, check, checking, checkup, command, control, curb, examination, grasp, I check, inspection, screening), contenimento (containment, containment building, reactor containment), autocontrollo (self control, self-control). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遠慮 (diffidence, reserve), 束縛 (binding, confinement, restriction, shackles), 抑制 (control, suppression), 拘束 (restriction). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こうそく (best student, block, high gear, high speed, infarction, leading disciple, luminous flux, restriction, school regulations, speed of light, stoppage, tightness), とめだて (restrain), けんせい (check, constitutional government, constraint, diversion, feint, influence, power, prefectural strengths, screen), けんそく (arrest, being exclusively absorbed in something, custody), けいばく (constraint), よくし (check, checkmate, control, stave off), えんりょ (diffidence, reserve), よくせい (control, suppression), そくばく (binding, confinement, restriction, shackles), せい (cause, companion, control, energy, establishment, family name, fault, gender, government, height, holding back, imperial command, laws, -made, make, military strength, organization, reason, regular, regulation, sex, spirit, stature, suppression, surname, system, threaten, true), せいし (authentic history, check, chief delegate, control, family name, filature, full name, heir, history, imperial command, inhibition, life and death, looking straight ahead, meditation, oath, paper making or manufacturing, pledge, repose, senior envoy, silk reeling, sperm, spinning, standing still, stillness, successor, viewing sincerely, vow, written oath), せいちゅう (adult, control, imago, loyalty, restriction, sperm, the exact middle), せいげん (attest, attestation, limitation, restriction, sine, vow or oath), せいさい (brilliance, detail, legal wife, life, punishment, sanctions, vitality, vividness), せいぎょ (adult fish, checking, control, governing, management, mastery, raw or fresh fish, repression, suppression), よくあつ (check, oppression, suppression). (various references)

Korean 

감금 (Caging, Captivity). (various references)

Manx

streeanaght, smaght (castigation, chastisement, command, control, correction, discipline, empire, good order, restriction, subjection), lhiettalys (check, clogging, constriction, counteraction, discouragement, embargo, hindrance, hitch, impedance, inhibition, interception, let, obstruction, prevention, restriction, stay, stoppage). (various references)

Pig Latin

estraintray

Portuguese

constrangimento (constraint, embarrassing, enforcement, manacle, neck). (various references)

Romanian

rezervã (aloofness, budget, chill, condition, deposit, distance, exception, hoard, offishness, qualification, refill, reservation, reserve, retention, side-room, stand by, standoffishness, stipulation, stock, store, substitute, supply), restricţie (reservation, reserve, restriction, stint), reţinere (check, continence, deduction, detention, moderation, pause, reservation, retainer, retention, stoppage), strânsoare (grasp, grip, pinch, pinching, strictness), interdicţie (ban, Forbiddance, injunction, interdict, interdiction, prohibition), frâu (bridle, curb, rein, reins, ribbon), forţare (compulsion, constraint, enforcement, obtrusion), constrângere (bondage, check, coercion, compulsion, constraint, cramp, disincentive, duresse, enforcement, force, impulsion, pressure, restriction, servitude, stress), captivitate (captivity), înfrânare (abstention, abstinence, bridling). (various references)

Russian 

ограничение (abridgment, circumscription, constraint, delimitation, limitation, qualifications, restriction, smallness, soft pedal, stint, swaddling clothes). (various references)

Scottish

sàs (difficulties, grasp : an sàs, in, straits), bac (a crook, hindrance, restrain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzdržljivost (abstainer, abstention, let alone, reserve, stand off, temperance), uzdržavanje (abstention, continence, self restraint), uzdržanost (strangeness, taciturnity), ograničenje (circumscription, confinement, constraint, delimitation, limitation, qualification, restriction, stint, stricture), odmerenost. (various references)

Spanish

restricción (check, clampdown, constraint, control, curb, restriction). (various references)

Swedish

behärskning (control). (various references)

Turkish

tutma (catch, containment, grasp, gripping, hold, holding, inhibition, interception, prehension, redemption, repression, retention, seizure, suppression, tackle, take, vogue), tahdit (limitation, restriction), sınırlama (chain, circumscription, confinement, constraint, delimitation, limitation, localization, qualification, restriction, termination), kısıtlama (constriction, inhibition, limitation, qualification, restriction, straitjacket), engel (balk, bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, countercheck, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, dam, determent, difficulty, discouragement, disincentive, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hobble, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, obstacle, obstruction, retardation, rub, shackles, slashing, snag, stay, stick, stop, stumbling block, supersedeas, tie, trammel), baskı (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, crackdown, crush, discipline, duress, edition, force, heat, impression, leverage, oppression, piezo-, press, press up, pressure, print, printing, repression, screw, squeeze, stress, suppression, the press, thrust, typographic, urgency). (various references)

Ukranian 

стриманість (chastity, continence, control, demureness, distance, offishness, reticence, self restraint, temper), самовладання (composure, countenance, possession, self control, self-command, self-government), обмеження (abridgement, abridgment, circumscription, confinement, corslet, cramp, derogation, limitation, qualification, restriction, stint, swaddling clothes), позбавленя волі. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thận trọng (carefulness, caution, chariness, circumspection, circumspectness, judiciousness, precaution, prudence, temperance, vigilance, wariness), sự tự kiềm chế được, sự ngăn giữ, sự kiềm chế sự hạn chế, sự kín đáo sự giản dị, sự giữ gìn (care, carefulness, conservation, keeping, precaution), sự gò bó, sự có chừng mực. (various references)

Welsh

carchar (prison), caethder (asthma, strictness). (various references)

catena, catenae, catenam, catenarum, catenas, catenasque, catenis, catenisque, continentia, inpune, modestia, modestiae, modestiam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "restraint": restraints. (additional references)

Words ending with "restraint": unrestraint. (additional references)

Words containing "restraint": unrestraints. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Restraint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: resrain, restain, restarant, restaraunt, restarint, restorant, restraind, restrant, restrauant, restraunt, Restreint, restreinte, restrint, tristran. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: retirants.

-1 letter: intreats, nitrates, restrain, retirant, retrains, strainer, straiten, straiter, tarriest, terrains, tertians, trainers.

-2 letters: anestri, antsier, artiest, artiste, artsier, attires, errants, instate, intreat, iratest, iterant, nastier, natters, nattier, nitrate, ranters, ratines, ratites, rattens, ratters, rattier, restart, retains, retinas, retints, retrain, retsina, ritters, satinet, sierran, stainer, starter, stearin, stinter, striate, tarries, tarsier, tastier, terrain.

+1 letter: registrant, restarting, restraints, retransmit, tristearin, truantries.

+2 letters: antitruster, heartstring, integrators, intergrafts, interstrain, interstrand, parturients, registrants, restoration, retractions, retransmits, terminators, transmitter, travertines, tristearins, unrestraint.

+3 letters: antitrusters, arbitraments, entertainers, fraternities, heartstrings, interrelates, interrogates, interstellar, interstrains, interstrands, natriuretics, partitioners, rattlebrains, registration, reintegrates, reiterations, reorientates, repartitions, repristinate, restorations, retardations, retroactions, scatterbrain, straightener, transmigrate, transmitters, unrestraints.

+4 letters: antipredators, antiterrorism, antiterrorist, contrarieties, determinators, disintegrator, exterminators, interpolators, interrogatees, interrogators, interstratify, introgressant, invertebrates, orchestrating, orchestration, perpetrations, perturbations, practitioners, predestinator, procrastinate, protonotaries, recalcitrants, recreationist, redintegrates, reforestation, registrations, remonstrating, remonstration, remonstrative, renaturations, repatriations, repristinated, repristinates, retranslating, retranslation, retransmitted, scatterbrains, straighteners, transcriptase, transistorise, transistorize, transliterate, transmigrated, transmigrates, trichopterans.

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