restricted
Academic Word List, sublist 2.
About 21.62 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb simple past and past participle of restrict
- adjective Limited within bounds.
- adjective Available only to certain authorized groups of people.
restricted area
- adjective Only available to customers who do not belong to racial, ethnic or religious minorities.
This hotel is restricted: no Blacks.
Similar words
circumscribed limited controlled out-of-bounds closed modified qualified classified off-limits limitation
Often followed by
to by in the and sense area or range
Word family
restrict restrictedly restricting restriction restrictions restrictive restrictively restricts
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