Associations to the word «Restrictive»
Noun
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
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you
want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's
gone, gone forever.