Illegal vs Restricted - What's the difference?
illegal | restricted |
Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
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(philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
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# (chiefly, US, sometimes, offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
(colloquial, offensive) An illegal immigrant.
An illegal resident spy.
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(restrict)
Limited within bounds.
Available only to certain authorized groups of people.
One of the classifications of the secrecy of an official document.
(grammar) Qualified.
As adjectives the difference between illegal and restricted
is that illegal is contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law while restricted is limited within bounds.As a noun illegal
is an illegal immigrant.As a verb restricted is
past tense of restrict.illegal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal , and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Usage notes
The use of "illegal" to describe a person rather than an action is often regarded as offensive.https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/03-5Synonyms
* (forbidden by law) criminal, felonious, illicit, unlawful * (totally fictitious) bogusAntonyms
* (forbidden by law) lawful, legalDerived terms
* illegal alien * illegal immigrantNoun
(en noun)- Anna Chapman, whose glamorous appearance won her more publicity in the Western media than all the other illegals combined, was so successfully deceived by a US sting operation that she handed over her SVR laptop to an FBI agent posing as a Russian.