Definitions
(of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports
Word origin
From Middle French restrictif.
Used in a sentence
“The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.”
“The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).”
“[…] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]”
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