restrictivere·stric·tive /rɪˈstrɪktɪv/ adjectiveadj1greatly limiting or controlling what is allowed to happenThe rest of Europe kept interest rates high to match the Bundesbank’s restrictivemonetary policies.
Environmentalists have drafted another proposal that is far more restrictive than last year’s initiative.
2restrictive (trade/business) practiceCOMMERCE an unfair action by a company, country etc that limits trade, competition etcThe U.S. suspects that the country’s restrictive trade practices are partly to blame for the rising trade deficit.
3restrictive practices British EnglishBrEHUMAN RESOURCES unreasonable limits that one TRADE UNION puts on the kind of work the members of other trade unions are allowed to doThe restrictive practices of stubborn unions kept the new printing presses idle.