limitinglim‧it‧ing /ˈlɪmətɪŋ/ adjective 
A limiting factor in health care is the way resources are distributed.2informal preventing someone from developing and doing what they are interested in: The job’s OK, but it’s sort of limiting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I found staying at home with the kids very limiting.
- I found the lack of available reference books very limiting.
- There is a lot of research that still needs to be done, but money is an important limiting factor.
- I began this discussion by saying that adherence to systematic nomenclature is a limiting kind of freedom.
- In practice, for a given area to remain in isostatic equilibrium, there would always be a limiting factor.
- Significant cyclosporin toxicity during prolonged treatment is minimal and does not appear to be a limiting factor at this dose of cyclosporin.
- Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations.
Longman Language Activatora problem that prevents you from achieving something
a problem that makes it difficult but not impossible for you to achieve what you want to achieve: · The lack of money is a serious obstacle that could prevent the project from succeeding.obstacle to: · The greatest obstacle to economic progress has been mass unemployment.overcome an obstacle (=deal with it successfully): · She had to overcome a lot of obstacles to finally make it to drama college.
something that prevents someone from achieving what they want: · His disability was no bar to his entry into the profession.· Differences in religious beliefs are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship.
preventing something from improving, developing, growing etc: · I found the lack of available reference books very limiting.· There is a lot of research that still needs to be done, but money is an important limiting factor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY A limiting factor in health care is the way resources are distributed.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
A limiting factor in health care is the way resources are distributed.· The log-hyperbolic distribution offers the possibility of a range of curve fittings, one limiting case of which is the log-normal distribution.· In the limiting case, therefore, this control condition reduces to that in which no pre-training is given.· There are two limiting cases to consider: the weak field case and the strong field case.· The limiting case of the Ferrari-Ibañez-Bruni solution is particularly interesting.· In the limiting case, the visitor is simply told that certain specimens and artifacts have certain kinds of names.
· Yachts visiting Lake Saimaa must be fitted with holding tanks, but otherwise draught is the principal limiting factor.· Another major limiting factor in excavation is the subjective nature of the excavation process.· In practice, for a given area to remain in isostatic equilibrium, there would always be a limiting factor.· Resources are, however, a major limiting factor.· On the other hand fetch is the limiting factor in the height of waves generated by easterly winds over the North Sea.· The other limiting factor is the creative one.· The other limiting factor in relation to flower pollination and fruit setting is weather.
WORD FAMILYnounlimitlimitationdelimitationadjectivelimited ≠ unlimitedlimitinglimitlessverblimitdelimit
1preventing any improvement or increase in something: A limiting factor in health care is the way resources are distributed.2informal preventing someone from developing and doing what they are interested in: The job’s OK, but it’s sort of limiting.