SAT vocabulary
Fetter
A chain, shackle, or restraint used to bind the ankles or feet; by extension, any confining impediment.
Example
"The reformer argued that bureaucratic red tape was a heavy fetter on local economic innovation."
Etymology
From Old English feter, of Germanic origin, related to fōt (foot).
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