0 strongly limiting someone's freedom to behave as they wish, or likely to severely punish someone if they do not obey:
Stricter controls on air pollution would help to reduce acid rain.
We follow very strict guidelines on the use and storage of personal details on computers.
Do you think stricter gun laws would reduce the murder rate in the United States?
The drug should only be administered under strict medical supervision.
The negotiations took place in strict (= total) secrecy.
a strict translation of the text
He would be found guilty under a strict interpretation of the law.
She's a strict vegetarian and refuses to eat any poultry or fish.
These were not funerals in the strict sense of the word; there were no caskets or physical remains.
This peasant economy should not be considered "subsistence" in a strict sense.
1 limiting people’s freedom to behave as they wish beyond what is usual:
The school is an old-fashioned institution with strict discipline.
Do you think stricter laws would help reduce automobile accidents?
He’s not a vegetarian in the strictest sense (= if you are exact about the word’s meaning).
The laws controlling drugs are very strict in this country.
He had been a strict father but was indulgent towards his grandchildren.
However, all these systems require strict adherence to maintenance protocols to perform to their full potential.
In other words, although the strict style always carried symbolic associations of law and order, this law had different implications at different times.
Regularity means, in a strict sense, accountability by a symbolic rule or a recurrent pattern.
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要求嚴格的,嚴厲的, 精確的,完全正確的, 嚴謹的…
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要求严格的,严厉的, 精确的,完全正确的, 严谨的…
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estricto, estricto/ta [masculine-feminine, singular]…
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rígido, severo, austero…
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(人柄が)厳しい, 厳格な, (規制などが)厳しい…
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katı, sert, disiplinli…
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sévère, strict…
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estricte…
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