stringent
rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
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.
Origin of stringent
1synonym study For stringent
Other words for stringent
Opposites for stringent
Other words from stringent
- strin·gent·ly, adverb
- non·strin·gent, adjective
- un·strin·gent, adjective
- un·strin·gent·ly, adverb
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How to use stringent in a sentence
Signing outside talent this year is difficult because of the league’s stringent covid-19 protocols.
Washington is now down to its fourth option at left tackle: Right tackle Morgan Moses | Nicki Jhabvala | November 19, 2020 | Washington PostIt set the most stringent rules and quickly hid posts from the misinformer in chief behind warning labels.
Twitter and Facebook warning labels aren’t enough to save democracy | Geoffrey Fowler | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostThis policy, designed to contain outbreaks, is more stringent than any of college football’s other four major conferences, which either require three tests per week or, in the case of the Big Ten, daily antigen tests.
The Pac-12’s football season hasn’t even started and a game already has been canceled | Matt Bonesteel | November 5, 2020 | Washington PostEurope took a step closer to the stringent restrictions imposed during the initial wave of the coronavirus pandemic as leaders struggle regain control of the spread.
Curfews, closings and police clashes: Spain and Italy impose tough new measures as COVID cases spike | Bernhard Warner | October 26, 2020 | FortuneNot to mention that SONGS would then have to jump through stringent regulatory hurdles to resume operations.
Finding homes for the waste that will (probably) outlive humanity | Katie McLean | October 21, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
Perhaps even more stringently followed was his policy against speaking in public without a prepared text.
Lincoln the Primitive Communicator? What He Can Teach Modern Politicians | Douglas L. Wilson | December 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe director's professional life was equally choreographed—though more stringently, even obsessively, controlled.
Should we fix the ratings agencies by regulating them more stringently, or do we need to deregulate and increase competition?
Modern science stringently demands facts in support of any assertion, the word "faith" having no place in its lexicon.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisFaithfully and stringently carried out, it might have saved the South.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals | T. C. DeLeonHe subsequently admitted the folly of this by securing Lydia's rights as his successor as stringently as he could.
Cashel Byron's Profession | George Bernard ShawThe old blue laws were stringently enforced, and the penalty for infringement was usually a sharp one.
Greenwich Village | Anna Alice ChapinI am against any short hours' bill, and am of opinion that infant labour should be stringently and universally enforced.
British Dictionary definitions for stringent
/ (ˈstrɪndʒənt) /
requiring strict attention to rules, procedure, detail, etc
finance characterized by or causing a shortage of credit, loan capital, etc
Origin of stringent
1Derived forms of stringent
- stringency, noun
- stringently, adverb
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