bounds

2 definitions • 6 examples

legal or social limits:

The committee felt that newspaper coverage of the murder went beyond reasonable bounds.

beyond the bounds of What you did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behaviour.

The assertion was, to my mind, well beyond the bounds of what is acceptable or proper.

know no bounds His desire for political power apparently knows no bounds (= seems to have no limits).

The president insisted that Congress had overstepped its bounds.

limits of an activity or behavior:

His desire for political power apparently knows no bounds.