constraint

Definitions

General English

• noun something which limits your ability to act

General Science

• noun something that restricts something else

Accounting

• noun any factor that limits the activities of a business, e.g. the capacity of a machine or the number of hours a worker can legally work

Aviation

• noun something that reduces freedom of action

Health Economics

• (written as Constraint)
  The limits (real and imaginary; budgetary, resource, political, etc.) on what it is possible to accomplish. Careful examination of imagined constraints often results in their being seen to be moveable, though usually at some cost. Releasing decision-makers from the curse of unimaginative thinking about constraints is one of the potentially great benefits of well-conducted economic appraisals.

Military

• noun something which restricts someone’s actions

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Contexts for “constraint”

6 definitions in context
• General English
• General Science
• Accounting
• Aviation
• Health Economics
• Military