circumscribe
pronunciation
How to pronounce circumscribe in British English:
UK [ˈsɜːkəmskraɪb]
How to pronounce circumscribe in American English:
US [ˈsɜːrkəmskraɪb]
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- Verb:
- draw a line around
- restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
- to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
Word Origin
- circumscribe (v.)
- late 14c., from Latin circumscribere "to make a circle around, encircle, draw a line around; limit, restrain, confine, set the boundaries of," from circum- "around" (see circum-) + scribere "write" (see script (n.)). Related: Circumscribed; circumscribing.
Example
- 1. Business leaders can no longer separate innovation from the laws that circumscribe it .
- 2. Authority and fear can circumscribe the argument , or congeal it , but can 't end it .
- 3. China would try to push american power as far away from its borders as it could circumscribe the scope of american naval power and reduce america 's weight in international diplomacy .
- 4. Regulators are considering rules to circumscribe the amount and quality of collateral etf providers need and may also force the fund managers to disclose more about their counterparties and the techniques they use to match the indices the funds are supposed to track .
- 5. They see the institutional arrangements that circumscribe and encapsulate economic activity-the household , legal structures , customary market procedures , forms of contract arrangement , business organization , even ideology and morality-as constraining economic activity along with limitations on the stock of physical and financial resources .