Straitjacket Definition

strātjăkĭt
straitjacket, straitjackets
noun
straitjackets
A jacketlike device with sleeves that bind the arms tight against the body: used, as in a psychiatric ward, to restrain persons in a violent state.
Webster's New World
Anything that confines or limits.
Webster's New World

A metaphor used to describe a range of situations seen as (unpleasantly?) confining or restricting.

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Synonyms:
verb
To confine or restrict with or as with a straitjacket.
Webster's New World

(by extension) To restrict the freedom of, either physically or psychologically.

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Other Word Forms of Straitjacket

Noun

Singular:
straitjacket
Plural:
straitjackets

Origin of Straitjacket

Straitjacket Sentence Examples

  • It should never be allowed to become a straitjacket.

  • It is to escape the straitjacket of the traditional comprehensive school and embrace the idea of genuinely independent non-fee paying state schools.

  • Could the economic straitjacket imposed by the Euro be part of the problem?

  • But it was left to the anti-union Thatcherite governments ' of the ' 80s to impose the legal straitjacket we have today.

  • But the reality is that today's designers have to work within a regulatory straitjacket dictated by the FIA rules.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTR

Words Ending With

TETKET

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Words Starting With S and Ending With T

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