- restraint
- noun1 limit/control on sthADJECTIVE▪ voluntary▪
agreements on voluntary export restraints
▪ 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.
▪ budget, budgetary, economic, financial, fiscal, monetary, pay (esp. BrE), spending, wage (esp. BrE)▪the government's need to exercise fiscal restraint
▪talks on voluntary wage restraint
▪ constitutional, government, judicial, legal, political, regulatory▪ cultural, moral, social▪ unconstitutional, unlawful▪guilty of the charge of unlawful restraint
▪ time▪We did the best we could within the limited time restraints.
▪ prior▪They balked at the notion of prior restraints on research.
VERB + RESTRAINT▪ impose, use▪ removePREPOSITION▪ without restraint▪Prices continued to rise without restraint.
▪ restraint on, restraint upon▪The government imposed restraints on spending.
2 behaving in a calm/moderate wayADJECTIVE▪ considerable, great, remarkable▪ admirable▪ emotional, sexualVERB + RESTRAINT▪ have▪Somehow I had the restraint not to tell Peter that.
▪ exercise, practise/practice, use▪Journalists have exercised remarkable restraint in not reporting all the sordid details of the case.
▪The media should have used more restraint in disclosing his private life.
▪ demonstrate, exhibit, show▪ call for, urge▪ require▪The role requires a certain restraint.
▪ abandon▪He abandoned all restraint and yelled at the top of his lungs.
PREPOSITION▪ with restraint▪They reacted with restraint.
▪ without restraint▪Finally he was able to cry properly, without restraint.
▪ restraint by▪The government called for restraint by both sides.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
