CONSTRAINT

[kən`streɪnt]

принуждение; оказывание давления

принужденность; стеснение; стеснительность

напряженность; скованность, неестественность

тюремное заключение

constraint: translation

▪ important, major

▪ severe, tight

▪

The government has placed tight constraints on spending this year.

▪ budget, budgetary, financial

▪ legal, space, time

▪ impose, place, put

▪ relax, remove

▪ face

▪ within a/the constraint

▪

We have to work within severe constraints.

▪ without constraint

▪

I felt free to speak to her without constraint.

▪ constraint on, constraint upon

▪

There are major financial constraints on all schools.

constraint: translation

abnegation, abstinence, aloofness, aplomb, arrest, arrestation, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, caging, calm, calmness, check, chilliness, circumscription, coaction, coercion, coldness, composure, compulsion, compulsiveness, confinement, conservatism, continence, control, cool, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, coolness, cramp, curb, curtailment, deceleration, denial, detachment, discipline, discreetness, discretion, dispassion, distance, drive, driving, duress, enforcement, evenness, exigency, expressionlessness, forbearance, forcing, frigidity, frostiness, frugality, gentleness, goad, golden mean, guardedness, happy medium, hindrance, iciness, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, impelling, impersonality, impoundment, impulse, impulsion, inaccessibility, independence, inevitability, inhibition, injunction, interdict, introversion, irresistibility, judiciousness, juste-milieu, legal restraint, lenity, lockup, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, modesty, monopoly, motive, necessity, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, obligation, obligement, pacifism, penning, pinch, possession, press, pressure, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, prudence, push, rash impulse, rationing, rein, remoteness, renouncement, renunciation, repose, repression, reserve, reservedness, restraint, restraint of trade, restriction, retardation, reticence, reticency, retirement, retiring disposition, retrenchment, self-abnegation, self-command, self-conquest, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, serenity, slowing down, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, spring, spur, stability, standoffishness, steadiness, stress, subduedness, suppression, tariff wall, temperance, temperateness, thought control, tranquillity, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexcessiveness, unexpansiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, urge, urgency, via media, violence, withdrawal, withdrawnness

constraint: translation

constraint UK US /kənˈstreɪnt/ noun [C]

► something that controls what you can do by keeping you within particular limits: »

The constraint of distribution costs remains the severest of all.

budget/financial, etc. constraints »

This growth in revenue may soften the government's budget constraints and allow it to increase public spending.

big/major/serious constraint »

They believe that the new legislation will remove a major constraint to economic expansion.

a constraint on/to sth »

The cost of capital is an important constraint on business activity.

place/put a constraint on sth »

Some external factors placed constraints on the scope of the work that could be undertaken.

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Among those conditions was a five-year time constraint. (= time limit)

1) общ. принуждение, давление

2) мат. ограничение (области допустимых значений какой-л. переменной или условие максимизации какой-л. переменной)

3) упр. сдерживающий фактор (фактор производства, нехватка которого мешает фирме расширить объемы деятельности)

4) стат. ограничивающая связь

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1) принуждение