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restrictive clauses

restrictive clauses is the plural of restrictive clause.

Meaning of restrictive clause

Noun

restrictive clause (plural restrictive clauses)

  1. A dependent clause that provides essential information to identify or specify the noun it modifies, limiting its reference to a particular subset.

Questions about restrictive clauses

What is restrictive clauses the plural of?
Restrictive clauses is the plural of restrictive clause.

Words near restrictive clauses in the dictionary

  1. restrictionists
  2. restrictionless
  3. restrictions
  4. restrictive
  5. restrictive clause
  6. restrictive clauses
  7. restrictive covenant
  8. restrictive covenants
  9. restrictive practice
  10. restrictive practices
  11. restrictive programming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: restrictive clauses (page history and authors); restrictive clause (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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