The phrase "a restrictive definition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a definition that limits the meaning of a term to a specific context or set of criteria.
Example: "In legal terms, a restrictive definition of 'employee' may exclude certain categories of workers from receiving benefits."
Alternatives: "a narrow definition" or "a limiting definition".
There is nothing in the Act to endorse a restrictive definition of "sell".
I think the trial judge correctly concluded that there is nothing in the legislative history of the 1909 Act which indicates that a restrictive definition of the word "copy" was intended.
In a restrictive definition, however, social choice is considered to deal with the problem of synthesizing heterogeneous individual preferences into a consistent ranking.
Normally, the insured wants a restrictive definition of "occurrence" because the term usually applies to determining deductibles, says Jacques Dubois Jacques Dubois, chairman of Swiss Re America Holding.
Faced with the threat of federal investigation and possibly even a loss of federal funds, many colleges are adopting a restrictive definition of sexual harassment put forth by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in a document billed as a "blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country".
"Atypical" swallowing, in this case, it is a restrictive definition used in dental field.
Despite the differences in methodology between our research and a California study (9), which used a less restrictive definition (an epidemiologic case pair was an index case and contact case), both studies found a similar percentage of unconfirmed case pairs.
If a less restrictive definition of a SNP is required, it is possible to set either (but not both) min_len_downstream or min_len_upstream equal to 0, and thus pick up more regions, including those that may be the beginning of insertion/deletion variations among genotypes.
Others argue for a more restrictive definition under which an eye is an organ that can produce an image, however crude, and not simply detect light (e.g., Land and Nilsson 2002; Piatigorsky 2008; Serb and Eernisse 2008).
We conducted a sensitivity analysis using a more restrictive definition of nonadherence (having only sometimes, rarely, or never taken PCP medications exactly as prescribed during the past month).
