restraint

English

Etymology

From Middle English restreynte, from Old French restreinte; more at restrain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈstɹeɪnt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪnt

Noun

restraint (countable and uncountable, plural restraints)

1. (countable) Something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures.

   Synonym: fetter

   Make sure all the restraints are tight.

   • 1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties‎^[1], Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:

     At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it.

2. (uncountable) Control or caution; reserve.

   Synonym: withstraint

   Try to exercise restraint when talking to your boss.

   • November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, “Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United”, in guardian.co.uk:

     City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.

Derived terms

• chemical restraint
• child restraint
• head restraint
• judicial restraint
• nonrestraint
• passive restraint
• prior restraint
• restraintful
• restraintless
• restraint of trade
• self-restraint
• supplemental restraint system
• unrestraint

Related terms

• constraint
• restrain
• restrict

Translations

something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures — see also restrainment,‎ restriction,‎ limitation

• Bulgarian: закрепване n (zakrepvane), ограничение (bg) n (ograničenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 限制 (zh) (xiànzhì)

• Czech: připoutání n, spoutání n, pouta (cs) n pl
• Dutch: beperking (nl),inhouding (nl),
• Finnish: side (fi), pidäke (fi)
• French: contention (fr) f (to secure manipulation on animals)
• German: Beschränkung (de) f, Zügelung f, Einschränkung (de) f, Zwang (de) m, Befestigung (de) f, Zurückhaltung (de) f, Hemmung (de) f, Verbot (de) n, Hemmnis (de) n, Behinderung (de) f, Auflage (de) f, Verhinderung (de) f, Gebundenheit f, Zwängung f
• Italian: limitazione (it), ritegno (it) m, contegno (it) m, remora (it) f
• Polish: ograniczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: amarra (pt) f
• Russian: ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije), сде́рживание (ru) n (sdérživanije)
• Scottish Gaelic: amaladh m, bacadh m, casg m
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: باصقی (baskı)

• Walloon: tinaedje-astok m (to secure manipulation on animals)
• Welsh: cyfyngiad (cy) m, atalfa f, ffrwyn f

control or caution — see also reserve,‎ moderation,‎ self-control,‎ self-mastery

• Bulgarian: сдържаност (bg) f (sdăržanost)
• Catalan: reserva f, retinguda f, retenció (ca) f, reteniment f, refrenament f, moderació f, domini de si m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克制 (zh) (kèzhì)

• Dutch: zelfbeheersing (nl), beheersing (nl)
• Esperanto: sindeteno
• Finnish: itsehillintä (fi), maltti (fi), pidättyväisyys (fi), harkinta (fi)
• French: refrènement (fr) m, retenue (fr) f
• German: Zurückhaltung (de) f, Beherrschung (de) f, Kontrolle (de) f, Selbstbeherrschung (de) f
• Hungarian: önuralom (hu)
• Irish: srianadh m
• Italian: ritegno (it) m, ritegni m pl
• Japanese: 我慢 (ja) (がまん, gaman)
• Kazakh: ұстам (ustam), ұстамдылық (ustamdılıq)
• Latin: abstinentia f
• Lithuanian: santūrumas m
• Occitan: resèrva (oc) f
• Old English: forhæfednes f
• Polish: opanowanie (pl) n
• Russian: сде́ржанность (ru) f (sdéržannostʹ)
• Thai: การยับยั้งชั่งใจ, ความยับยั้งชั่งใจ
• Welsh: ymatal (cy) m

Anagrams

• retransit, transiter