Collocations for restraint - noun

voluntary
agreements on voluntary export restraints

conventional
What happens when the conventional restraints on human cruelty are removed?

physical
Sometimes the care workers need to use physical restraint on the hospital patients.

budget, budgetary, economic, financial, fiscal, monetary, pay (esp. BrE), spending, wage (esp. BrE)
the government's need to exercise fiscal restraint
talks on voluntary wage restraint

constitutional, government, judicial, legal, political, regulatory
cultural, moral, social
unconstitutional, unlawful
guilty of the charge of unlawful restraint

time
We did the best we could within the limited time restraints.

prior
They balked at the notion of prior restraints on research.

impose, use
remove

without restraint
Prices continued to rise without restraint.

restraint on, restraint upon
The government imposed restraints on spending.

considerable, great, remarkable
admirable
emotional, sexual

have
Somehow I had the restraint not to tell Peter that.

exercise, practise/practice, use
Journalists have exercised remarkable restraint in not reporting all the sordid details of the case.
The media should have used more restraint in disclosing his private life.

demonstrate, exhibit, show
call for, urge
require
The role requires a certain restraint.

abandon
He abandoned all restraint and yelled at the top of his lungs.

with restraint
They reacted with restraint.

without restraint
Finally he was able to cry properly, without restraint.

restraint by
The government called for restraint by both sides.