Associations to the word «Restrictive»

Wiktionary

RESTRICTIVE, adjective. Confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.
RESTRICTIVE COVENANT, noun. (legal) An agreement between parties limiting or restricting the use of land owned by one of the parties.
RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES, noun. (legal) (business) (pejorative) In antitrust law, practices that restrict other business, such as price fixing, market sharing, monopolizing, or attempting to monopolize markets.

Dictionary definition

RESTRICTIVE, adjective. Serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments".
RESTRICTIVE, adjective. (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope