Definition of Restrictive

Restrictive

Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.

Astringent or styptic in effect.

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Restrictive Quotations

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Irving Babbitt

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
Vaclav Klaus

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.
William Vickrey

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.
Harry Seidler

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.
Russell M. Nelson

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Restrictive Translations

restrictive in Swedish is restriktiv

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