restraint

restraint
noun
1 limit/control on sth
ADJECTIVE
voluntary

agreements on voluntary export restraints

conventional

What happens when the conventional restraints on human cruelty are removed?

physical

Sometimes the care workers need to use physical restraint on the hospital patients.

budget, budgetary, economic, financial, fiscal, monetary, pay (esp. BrE), spending, wage (esp. BrE)

the government's need to exercise fiscal restraint

talks on voluntary wage restraint

constitutional, government, judicial, legal, political, regulatory
cultural, moral, social
unconstitutional, unlawful

guilty of the charge of unlawful restraint

time

We did the best we could within the limited time restraints.

prior

They balked at the notion of prior restraints on research.

VERB + RESTRAINT
impose, use
remove
PREPOSITION
without restraint

Prices continued to rise without restraint.

restraint on, restraint upon

The government imposed restraints on spending.

2 behaving in a calm/moderate way
ADJECTIVE
considerable, great, remarkable
admirable
emotional, sexual
VERB + RESTRAINT
have

Somehow I had the restraint not to tell Peter that.

exercise, practise/practice, use

Journalists have exercised remarkable restraint in not reporting all the sordid details of the case.

The media should have used more restraint in disclosing his private life.

demonstrate, exhibit, show
call for, urge
require

The role requires a certain restraint.

abandon

He abandoned all restraint and yelled at the top of his lungs.

PREPOSITION
with restraint

They reacted with restraint.

without restraint

Finally he was able to cry properly, without restraint.

restraint by

The government called for restraint by both sides.


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