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UK
/stɹˈeɪtdʒækɪt/
]
[ US /ˈstɹeɪtˌdʒækət/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹeɪtˌdʒækət/ ]
NOUN
- a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
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anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines
the government is operating in an economic straitjacket
they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket
How To Use straitjacket In A Sentence
- The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
- It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
- In France, there is no ideological straitjacket that prohibits intervention. Times, Sunday Times
- Effie learned they had taken his straitjacket off and unchained his feet after he'd been asleep a few hours.
- The poisoned workers were taken from the plant in straitjackets, hallucinating, convulsing and screaming.
- The intersections become street-performing pitches, and crowds of hundreds watch someone escape from a straitjacket or juggle machetes or eat fire.
- But objectives that become a straitjacket do harm. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
- She was known for choosing the most difficult assignments, caring for the terminally ill and even the deranged patients that often were brought in straitjackets.
- He was on a gurney, all wrapped up in a straitjacket and his feet were chained together.
- They have neither the experience nor, in some cases, the basic knowledge needed to escape from its straitjacket. Times, Sunday Times
