Usually means: Imposing limits on freedom, activity.
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  1. restrictive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. restrictive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. restrictive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. restrictive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. restrictive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Restrictive, restrictive: Wordnik
  7. restrictive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. restrictive: Wiktionary
  9. restrictive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. restrictive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. restrictive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. restrictive: Dictionary.com
  13. restrictive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Restrictive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Restrictive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. restrictive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. restrictive: Rhymezone
  18. Restrictive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. restrictive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. restrictive: Free Dictionary
  21. restrictive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. restrictive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. restrictive: Legal dictionary

(Note: See restrictively as well.)

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adjective:  Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.
adjective:  (Of clothing) limiting free and easy bodily movement.
noun:  (grammar) A clause that narrows the meaning of a noun or noun phrase.

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