adj .
strict ; restrictive (규칙 등이) 엄격한 ; 제한적인

• The restaurant's stringent dress code required diners to wear paper hats, army boots, and battery-operated-twirling bow ties.
• The IRS account was quite stringent in his interpretation of the tax code ; he disallowed virtually all of Leslie's deductions.
  그 국세청 직원은 조세 규정을 너무 엄격하게 해석했다 ; 그는 레슬리의 공제액을 사실상 하나도 인정하지 않았다.