restrict, verb transitive
- Origin:
- EnglishShow more Special sense of general English restrict ‘to restrain by prohibition’ (OED).
To constrain (a person or organization) by official order (setting out limited rights of movement, association, and communication) in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950, or the Internal Security Act of 1982. Usually passive. So restricted participial adjective. Cf. ban verb.
- Note:
- Such limits were imposed by the National Party government on many political leaders and activists opposing apartheid.
1971 Rand Daily Mail 8 Mar. 3Mr. Pelser..told the ‘Rand Daily Mail’: ‘Miss Naidoo is a restricted person.’
1990 M. Kentridge Unofficial War 77He said, ‘..I’m a restricted person and so I am limited...To be restricted is like living in a fish-bowl. You can see everything but you can do nothing.’
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