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stringent
[ strin-juhnt ]
adjective
- rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe:
stringent laws.
Synonyms: restrictive
Antonyms: flexible
- compelling, constraining, or urgent:
stringent necessity.
- convincing or forcible:
stringent arguments.
- (of the money market) characterized by a shortage in money for loan or investment purposes; tight.
stringent
/ ˈstrɪndʒənt /
adjective
- requiring strict attention to rules, procedure, detail, etc
- finance characterized by or causing a shortage of credit, loan capital, etc
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Derived Forms
- ˈstringency, noun
- ˈstringently, adverb
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Other Words From
- stringent·ly adverb
- non·stringent adjective
- un·stringent adjective
- un·stringent·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stringent1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stringent1
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Example Sentences
In other words, unnecessarily stringent abortion regulation could be far more dangerous than abortion itself.
The other would forbid more stringent background checks than those required by federal law.
Yet we do have stringent regulations regarding adoption in this country.
And is politics really cleaner when stringent restrictions are put into place?
America is in urgent need of more stringent gun control laws, as the British discovered at Lexington and Concord.
You may keep on framing stringent game laws as long as you choose, but you cannot kill an overmastering instinct.
The working conditions, also, are more favorable: the room is light and airy, the discipline not so stringent.
Such a stringent regulation of trade met with directly contrary results to those which had been expected.
But early in the thirteenth century it becomes evident that such stringent exclusiveness could not be enforced.
The treaty of Lahore was however completed, and was sufficiently stringent.
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