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UNRESTRICTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unrestricted mean?
• UNRESTRICTED (adjective)
The adjective UNRESTRICTED has 5 senses:
1. not subject to or subjected to restriction
2. free of restrictions on conduct
3. not restricted or exclusive
4. not restricted or modified in meaning
5. never having had security classification
Familiarity information: UNRESTRICTED used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not subject to or subjected to restriction
Similar:
all-weather (usable or operative or practiced in all kinds of weather)
discretionary ((especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed)
open (accessible to all)
open-plan ((of rooms or buildings) having large rooms with few dividing partitions)
open-ended (without fixed limits or restrictions)
Also:
free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)
Antonym:
restricted (subject to restriction or subjected to restriction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Free of restrictions on conduct
Context example:
I had unrestricted access
Similar:
free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not restricted or exclusive
Synonyms:
unexclusive; unrestricted
Similar:
public (not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Not restricted or modified in meaning
Context example:
unrestricted verbs are usually stronger than those qualified by adverbs
Similar:
unmodified (not changed in form or character)
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
Sense 5
Meaning:
Never having had security classification
Synonyms:
nonsensitive; unrestricted
Similar:
unclassified (not subject to a security classification)
Context examples
These cells exert major histocompatibility-unrestricted natural cytotoxicity against several types of solid tumors and some leukemias and lymphomas.
(Immature Peripheral Gamma/Delta Cell of Cytotoxic Type, NCI Thesaurus)
Their study in mice also found that animals undergoing dietary restriction were better protected against tumors and bacterial infections than animals with unrestricted diets.
(Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets, National Institutes of Health)
Despite an unremarkable clinical course, continued unrestricted gluten intake may predispose to the same sequelae as overt disease.
(Latent Celiac Disease, NCI Thesaurus)
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