limitation
a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
Origin of limitation
1Other words from limitation
- non·lim·i·ta·tion, noun
Words that may be confused with limitation
- limit, limitation
Words Nearby limitation
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How to use limitation in a sentence
The city attorney’s office also supported Gloria’s executive order but has declined to talk about cases that fall within the one-year statute of limitations for filing.
Despite Crackdown Announcement, Not Much COVID-19 Enforcement Is Happening | Jesse Marx | February 11, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoRicky Rapa Thomson, co-founder, SafeBodaThe companies behind the motorcycle taxi apps believe they can overcome those limitations.
Asked about the possibility of drive-through clinics or clinics at larger venues, Nesbitt pointed to limitations in vaccine supply.
Officials in D.C. region try to combat vaccine hesitancy while seeking more doses | Jenna Portnoy, Rebecca Tan, Michael Brice-Saddler | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostUntil streaming becomes more reliable, sports leagues will be hesitant to fully trust the technology—especially because broadcast TV, for all its limitations, generally doesn’t crap out in the middle of big moments.
Below are the assumptions we made in our analysis and the limitations of our conclusions.
How We Found Pricey Provisions in New Jersey Police Contracts | by Agnes Chang, Jeff Kao and Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Andrew Ford, Asbury Park Press | February 8, 2021 | ProPublica
The announcement also said nothing at all about a time limitation.
“The SA-6 requires multiple vehicles to make it work, which highlights the big limitation,” Pietrucha said.
The result will have to be a limitation of the doctrine itself.
One key argument made by the plaintiff was that current limits on contributions represent an absurd limitation on speech.
McCutcheon v. FEC: Big Money Fights Back at the Supreme Court | Ben Jacobs | October 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe issue in McCutcheon v. FEC is the limitation on aggregate contributions to federal campaigns.
The Court Case That Pivots on What ‘Corrupt’ Really Means | Lawrence Lessig | September 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere could be no social remedy for poverty except the almost impossible remedy of the limitation of life itself.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThis limitation related, so a court decided, to loss resulting from the nature of the things stored.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesThis evidently explains but little of the real reason both of the grant and its limitation.
It was a limitation of Thomas Hutchinson's excellent administrative mind that lie was wholly unaware of this crisis.
The Eve of the Revolution | Carl BeckerThe poem cannot place its author among the very great poets of the world, if only because of this limitation.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred Downer
British Dictionary definitions for limitation
/ (ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃən) /
something that limits a quality or achievement
the act of limiting or the condition of being limited
law a certain period of time, legally defined, within which an action, claim, etc, must be commenced
property law a restriction upon the duration or extent of an estate
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