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say it: STRAYT-jak-uht
straitjacket is a noun meaning "anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines". It carries 2 recorded senses.
anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines
“they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket”
“the government is operating in an economic straitjacket”
a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for straitjacket come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.