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adj. Of or relating to restriction.

adj. Tending or serving to restrict; limiting.

adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a subordinate clause or phrase that identifies the noun, phrase, or clause it modifies and limits or restricts its meaning, as the clause who live in glass houses in People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

adj. Confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.

adj. Serving or tending to restrict; limiting

adj. Astringent or styptic in effect.

Serving to bind or draw together; astringent; styptic.

Having the property of limiting or of expressing limitation: as, a restrictive particle or clause.

Imposing restrictions; operating through restrictions.

Expressing a restriction, or involving a restriction, in the logical sense.

Also restringent.

n. A styptic or astringent.

adj. (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports

adj. serving to restrict

"The memorandum presented to Manuel said the government's strict aderence to what it described as restrictive fiscal policy was crippling the reconstruction and development programme, and weakening transformation goals."

protective    inhibitory    repressing    repressive    sumptuary    restricting    constrictive    regulatory    limiting    suppressive   

confining    restrictive indorsement    restrictive proposition    restrictive enunciation   

limiting    limitative    circumscriptive    qualificatory   

addictive    predictive    vindictive   

stringent    repressive    burdensome    rigorous    discriminatory    hazardous    penal    oppressive    peremptory    arbitrary