off-limits Definition
off·-limits (-lim′its)
adjective
designated as a place that cannot be entered, visited, or patronized by a specified group
off-limits Usage Examples
Preposition: for
year: This valley was off-limits for many years owing to its proximity to the sensitive Tibetan border.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
make: Alternatively, you may make an entire directory off-limits.
Used with adjective complement
- remain: Please, don't tell me you are accepting the IPR lobby's line that the current regime of IPR protection must remain off-limits.
- declare: By the time the causeway did open, Sanibel had been declared largely off-limits to the developers.
- consider: But in the song Dear Mr President, she's going for the kind of target most chart stars consider off-limits.
Modifying Another Word
- strictly: It was also sobering to realize that only seven years ago such a tour would have been strictly off-limits.
- now: Today's visitors to Ani must explore the ruins under the supervision of armed soldiers and most of the extensive site is now off-limits.
- officially: Their island was officially off-limits; it had been ' sold ' to the U.S. military.
- usually: Why not explore the usually off-limits areas of Londonâs theaters with backstage tours, to see what they have to offer?
- absolutely: Saddam International Tower is a ghost tower - absolutely off-limits to any cameras.
- largely: By the time the causeway did open, Sanibel had been declared largely off-limits to the developers.
Modifies a noun
area: Why not explore the usually off-limits areas of Londonâs theaters with backstage tours, to see what they have to offer?
Browse dictionary entries near off-limits
- ‹ off-licence
- ‹ off-key
- ‹ off-hour
- ‹ off-hook voice announce
- ‹ off-hook
- ‹ off-glide
- ‹ off for
- ‹ off-floor order
- ‹ off-color
- ‹ off-center

