Restraint

  • 121voluntary export restraint — UK US noun [C] (ABBREVIATION VER, also voluntary export restriction, voluntary restraint agreement) COMMERCE ► an agreement between two countries that limits the number of goods of a particular type that one of the countries can sell to the other …

    Financial and business terms

  • 122self-restraint — n. to display, exercise, practice, show self restraint * * * exercise practice show self restraint to display …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 123self-restraint — self re straint n [U] the ability to stop yourself doing or saying something, even though you want to, because it is more sensible not to do or say it exercise/practise self restraint ▪ The UN appealed for both sides to exercise self restraint …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 124No-Restraint-System — No Re|straint* Sys|tem [nouris treint...] das; s <aus gleichbed. engl. no restraint system zu no restraint »keine (Freiheits)beschränkung«> ein Behandlungssystem in der Psychiatrie, das dem Patienten weitgehende Freiheit lässt …

    Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • 125self-restraint — noun (U) the ability not to do or say something you very much want to, because you know this is more sensible: exercise self restraint: Police officers must learn to exercise self restraint …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 126self-restraint — self′ restraint′ n. restraint imposed on one by oneself; self control • Etymology: 1765–75 self′ restrained′, adj. self′ restrain′ing, adj …

    From formal English to slang

  • 127partial restraint on alienation — A restraint on alienation other than an unqualified restraint, such as a restriction upon alienation to a particular person or persons or within a certain period of time. 41 Am J1st Perp § 75 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 128self-restraint — [self′ri strānt′] n. restraint imposed on oneself by oneself; self control self restrained adj …

    English World dictionary