Synonyms for restriction
rɪˈstrɪk ʃənre·stric·tion

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1. restriction

   A bar is something that is or may be firmly fixed, ordinarily with intent to prevent entrance or egress; as, the bars of a prison cell; the bars of a wood-lot. A barrier obstructs, but is not necessarily impassable. Barrier is used of objects more extensive than those to which bar is ordinarily applied. A mountain range may be a barrier to exploration; but a mass of sand across the entrance to a harbor is called a bar. Discovered falsehood is a bar to confidence. Barricade has become practically a technical name for an improvised street fortification, and, unless in some way modified, is usually so understood. A parapet is a low or breast-high wall, as about the edge of a roof, terrace, etc., especially, in military use, such a wall for the protection of troops; a rampart is the embankment surrounding a fort, on which the parapet is raised; the word rampart is often used as including the parapet. Bulwark is a general word for any defensive wall or rampart; its only technical use at present is in nautical language, where it signifies the raised side of a ship above the upper deck, topped by the rail. Compare BOUNDARY; IMPEDIMENT.

   Synonyms:
   bar, barricade, barrier, breastwork, bulwark, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, parapet, prohibition, rampart, restraint

   Antonyms:
   admittance, entrance, opening, passage, road, thoroughfare, transit, way

   Preposition:
   A barrier to progress, against invasion; a barrier between nations.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

1. restriction, limitationnoun

   a principle that limits the extent of something

   "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements"

   Synonyms:
   confinement, limitation, limit

2. limitation, restrictionnoun

   an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)

   Synonyms:
   confinement, limitation, limit

3. restriction, confinementnoun

   the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

   "the restriction of the infection to a focal area"

   Synonyms:
   labour, confinement, parturiency, limitation, childbed, travail, lying-in, labor

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1. • Regulation

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1. restrictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   limitation, constraint, confinement, restraint

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. restrictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   restraint, constraint, confinement, repression, circumscription, limitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "restriction":

   limitation, restrictions, constraint, restrictiveness, restricting, restraint, limit, curtailment, restricted, limitations, restrict, restraining, limiting, restrictive, back-pressure, constraints

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1. Marco Rubio:

   Banning abortion after four months is consistent with Florida law and more permissive than all but two European countries, why doesn’t the media ask Val Demings why she doesn’t support a single restriction on abortions? She is an extremist that supports abortion, for any reason, at any time up to the moment of birth and paid for by taxpayers.

2. city council:

   This legislation represents a new mark in the invisibility and disenfranchisement of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) and adds to the systematic restriction of the rule of law and fundamental freedoms that have been practiced for years in Hungary.

3. Van Grack:

   The singular issue was if there was any reason that DOJ can not possess and use these documents marked as classified, legally it was so clear that there can not and should not be that restriction.

4. Lawrence Yun:

   Travel restrictions were a big factor, buyers want to see the property. Any travel restriction or even Covid test requirement, which was only lifted this summer, that is an inconvenience, or a signal to say' stay away.'.

5. Delaney Marsco:

   It's a widespread, bipartisan feeling that there needs to be more restriction on individual stock trades.