Definitions for limitation

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limitation lim·i·ta·tion

Spelling: [lim-i-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌlɪm ɪˈteɪ ʃən/

Limitation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 293 anagrams from letters in limitation (aiiilmnott).

Definitions for limitation

noun

1. a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap:
2. something that limits; a limit or bound; restriction:
3. the act of limiting.
4. the state of being limited.
5. Law. the assignment, as by statute, of a period of time within which an action must be brought, or the period of time assigned:

Origin of limitation

1350-1400; Middle English lymytacion Latin līmitātiōn- (stem of līmitātiō) a bounding, equivalent to līmitāt(us) (past participle of līmitāre to enclose within boundaries; see Examples for limitation

He acts with him as a sort of guardian; and that is the limitation of his role.

The issue in McCutcheon v. FEC is the limitation on aggregate contributions to federal campaigns.

Moreover, the limitation of “major settlement blocs” is squishy at best.

Then under this limitation—let me ask you again, why do you wish to please?

Fitzgerald was a romantic but not a sensualist, a limitation in his writing he acknowledged.

Their connection continued until 1867, when it expired by limitation.

The greatest strength is observed to have an element of limitation.

The result will have to be a limitation of the doctrine itself.

But that limitation really illuminates the talents of these women.

It is necessarily limited in range, and its limitation is its strength.