straitjacket
straitjacket
Definition
strait·jacket (strāt′jak′it)
noun
- a coatlike device that binds the arms tight against the body: used to restrain persons in a violent state
- anything that confines or limits
transitive verb
to confine or restrict with or as with a straitjacket
straitjacket
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- rule: It avoids the straitjacket of rigid rules which can apply harshly or unfairly in an individual case.
- rate: Why on earth should we accept the straitjacket of a one-size-fits-all interest rate when it's not the right rate for our economy?
Converse of object
- impose: Could the economic straitjacket imposed by the Euro be part of the problem?
- become: It should never be allowed to become a straitjacket.
- escape: It is to escape the straitjacket of the traditional comprehensive school and embrace the idea of genuinely independent non-fee paying state schools.
- loosen: Secondly, they will need to find ways to loosen the financial straitjacket.
- use: His escapes were real and certified by police officers and military personnel, because he used real straitjackets, handcuffs, chains and locks.
Adjective modifier
- economic: Could the economic straitjacket imposed by the Euro be part of the problem?
- legal: But it was left to the anti-union Thatcherite governments ' of the ' 80s to impose the legal straitjacket we have today.
- regulatory: But the reality is that today's designers have to work within a regulatory straitjacket dictated by the FIA rules.
- ideological: It is in the arts and social sciences that the ideological straitjacket has been most severe.
- three-year: A three-year straitjacket is inefficient and produces inflated budgets padded out for safety.
- contractual: The contractual straitjacket under which George Eastham labored had changed little since the era of Kingaby himself.
Modifies a noun
- escape: I introduced myself and told them that I had a big straitjacket escape record planned, and it all fell into place from there.
Browse dictionary entries near straitjacket
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- strand
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