constraint
noun
uk
/kənˈstreɪnt/ us
/kənˈstreɪnt/C2 [ C ]
constraint of The constraints of politeness wouldn't allow her to say what she really thought about his cooking.
constraint on Financial constraints on the company are preventing them from employing new staff.
[ U ] formal
- anti-libertarian
- armlock
- boundary
- box someone out phrasal verb
- box someone/something in phrasal verb
- cripplingly
- crowd
- curb
- curtail
- curtailment
- keep (herself) to herself idiom
- keep something down phrasal verb
- limit
- limit something to something
- limitation
- stranglehold
- stunt
- suffocatingly
- tempered
- tie someone down phrasal verb
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