Synonyms for chains
cha·ins

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1. chains

   Bonds may be of cord, leather, or any other substance that can bind; chains are of linked metal. Manacles and handcuffs are for the hands, fetters are primarily chains or jointed iron fastenings for the feet; gyves may be for either. A shackle is a metallic ring, clasp, or bracelet-like fastening for encircling and restraining a limb: commonly one of a pair, used either for hands or feet. Bonds, fetters, and chains are used in a general way for almost any form of restraint. Gyves is now wholly poetic, and the other words are mostly restricted to the literary style; handcuffs is the specific and irons the general term in popular usage; as, the prisoner was put in irons. Bonds, chains, and shackles are frequently used in the metaphorical sense.

   Synonyms:
   bondage, bonds, custody, durance, duress, fetter, gyves, handcuffs, imprisonment, irons, manacles, shackles

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1. irons, chainsnoun

   metal shackles; for hands or legs

   Synonyms:
   irons

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1. • Shackle

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1. List of paraphrases for "chains":

   strings, channels, chain, shackles, chaînes, ranges, padlock, cadenas, stations, string, padlocks, broadcasters, networks, fetters, lines, webs

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1. Kate Tulenko:

   Regarding canceling your reservations, many airlines and hotel chains are allowing cancellations and giving credit for future travel, due to the fact that many people are not traveling internationally, it is usually easy for a domestic hotel to fill the vacancy once you have canceled.

2. Abby Maxman:

   The Ukraine crisis has had this ongoing negative impact on world food prices and [added] even more volatility, the supply chains and how they flow to places like East Africa and the Horn of Africa are taking big hits.

3. Euromonitor International:

   The tastes of Chinese consumers are developing and more of them are becoming more accustomed to Western food culture, with the rapid expansion of fast food chains such as Pizza Hut and McDonalds, the majority of Chinese people have already tasted cheese and have found they are able to accept it.

4. Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng:

   U.S. measures are essentially attacking global supply and value chains. To put it simply, the U.S. is opening fire on the entire world, including itself, china will not bow down in the face of threats and blackmail and will not falter from its determination to defend free trade and the multilateral system.

5. Ruby McGregor-Smith:

   The supply of European Union labor was turned off with no clear roadmap as to how this transition would be managed without disruption to services and supply chains, a managed transition, with a plan agreed between government and business, should have been in place from the outset.