stricture
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- noun
- /ˈstrɪk.tʃɚ/
- Many students find the strictures of the dress code to be overly restrictive.
- moral strictures
- legal strictures
- violate strictures
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Watch on YouTubeDoes the market impose similar strictures on the location of people?
- Does the market impose similar strictures on the location of people?
- And so there's this constant war between the strictures of tradition and the transformation of creativity.
- And those social strictures can be suffocating and very difficult to escape from.
Examples
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I soon discovered that this new stricture applied to all theaters, not just Broadway.
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And I am not alone in finding their strictures on modern society too bad to be true.
Academic text (1992) -
Even so, with all these strictures, modern medicine allows our children to grow up.
Academic text (1990) -
Does the market impose similar strictures on the location of people?
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And those social strictures can be suffocating and very difficult to escape from.
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The constant repetition of official strictures suggests less than complete success in their enforcement.
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Some women work to abandon religious strictures, while others challenge interpretation of religious laws and make arguments from within texts and traditions.
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For lawyers, these integrity issues go far beyond the strictures of mandatory legal professionalism.
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The formal garden imposes geometric strictures on plants.
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There's no reason we need to be shackled by the strictures of the employee-employer relationship.
Synonyms
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A rule or action that limits what you can do
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A rule or condition that limits what you can do
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A rule that controls how much or how many of something there can be
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A rule or measure that limits what people can do
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An order people must follow exactly, often with punishment if ignored
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A set of rules people must always follow with no exceptions
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A strong rule that people must follow to keep others safe
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An official rule that bans something or someone, usually by law
An official order not to do something
Antonyms
How Restrictive
- Formal
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- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word stricture comes from a Latin root meaning 'to tighten', the same root as strict. A stricture as a rule or condition is a limit that 'tightens' what people can do, which is why the word means a restriction.