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restrictively
adverb
uk /rɪˈstrɪk.tɪv.li/ us /rɪˈstrɪk.tɪv.li/
in a way that limits the freedom of someone or the degree of something:
The court chose to interpret the regulation very restrictively.
The children have been brought up very restrictively, so it is hardly surprising that they have both rebelled against their parents.
The drug should be prescribed restrictively to patients suffering from depression.
The prices of flats and houses in this region have become restrictively high for first-time buyers.
The company's new policies restrictively limit employees' ability to work in the way that suits them.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Limiting and restricting
anti-libertarian
armlock
boundary
box someone out
box someone/something in
crippling
cripplingly
crowd
curb
curtail
keep (herself) to herselfidiom
keep something down
limit
limitation
limitative
suffocatingly
tempered
tie someone down
tie someone up
uncrippled
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