restraint noun
1 limit/control on sth
ADJ. effective | voluntary talks on voluntary wage restraint | conventional what happens when the conventional restraints on human cruelty are removed | physical Sometimes the care workers need to use physical restraint on the hospital patients. | budgetary, economic, expenditure, financial, fiscal, monetary, pay, spending, wage | contractual, judicial, legal, regulatory | cultural, moral, social
VERB + RESTRAINT impose, use | remove
PREP. without ~ Prices continued to rise without restraint. | ~ on/upon The government imposed restraints on spending.
2 behaving in a calm/moderate way
ADJ. considerable, great, remarkable | mutual the mutual restraint shown by police and protesters. | sexual
VERB + RESTRAINT exercise, show Journalists have exercised remarkable restraint in not reporting all the sordid details of the case. | appeal for, call for
PREP. ~ by The government called for restraint by both sides.
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