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

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke