stringency

基本解释

The number of women who experience PMS depends entirely on the stringency of the definition of PMS.[23]
经历经前综合症的妇女数量完全取决于经期综合症定义的严格程度。
“Reduction in the stringency of employment protection is needed and could be balanced by an increase in the extent of accrual-based severance payments,” it said.
该组织称：“有必要降低就业保护的严格程度，并且可以相应扩大递增型离职补偿金的范围。”
These compounds are then taken through successive rounds of screening (“secondary” screens) of increasing stringency in order to determine their suitability for “lead optimization.”
这些化合物然后经过一轮又一轮地增加严格性的筛选来决定它们是否适合于先导药物优化。

As unexpectedly high tax revenues keep pouring in, congressmen have surpluses, not stringency, on their minds.
ECONOMIST: The budget and Congress
For all the talk of fiscal stringency, tax rises and spending cuts are only beginning to bite.
ECONOMIST: Economic stumbles
By enacting legislation premised on incomplete and incorrect science, unnecessary regulatory stringency cost Americans untold billions of dollars.
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Financial stringency is a situation in which a government or person does not have much money or is trying not to spend much.