0 the quality of being very strict, severe, or limiting:
The stringency of the safety regulations threatens to put many manufacturers out of business.
Drug use bears no simple relation to the stringency of drug laws.
1 a situation in which not enough money is available for borrowing as a result of firm controls on the amount of money in an economy:
2 a situation in which a law, test, etc. is extremely severe or limiting and must be obeyed:
the stringency of sth The statute prohibits the adoption of environmental protections laws that exceed the stringency of federal regulations.
3 a situation in which companies or governments can spend only very little money because of difficult economic conditions:
Mishaps are rare, which is testament to the stringency of the regulations.
Advance publicity about the stringency of the terms had caused widespread social unrest.
The government intends to stick to a policy of continued fiscal stringency.
The numbers of part-time teachers have declined in the last few years as a result of financial stringency.
In times of severe economic stringency, painful strategic choices about services have to be made.
In their early, purist form, their utopian stringency had been mutually reinforcing.
Since we are interested in how costs and benefits depend on the stringency of targets, we analyse several targets at increasing stringency.
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