Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exercising restriction; restrictive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Restrictive.
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- adjective
restrictive ; serving torestrict
Etymologies
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Examples
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[5] the downturn that became the Great Depression began at the end of the 1920s with restrictionary policies in the United States and Germany (said to have been prompted both by a wish to restrain stock exchange speculation and by a determination to comply with the rules of the gold standard).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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[5] the downturn that became the Great Depression began at the end of the 1920s with restrictionary policies in the United States and Germany (said to have been prompted both by a wish to restrain stock exchange speculation and by a determination to comply with the rules of the gold standard).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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[5] the downturn that became the Great Depression began at the end of the 1920s with restrictionary policies in the United States and Germany (said to have been prompted both by a wish to restrain stock exchange speculation and by a determination to comply with the rules of the gold standard).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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