Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Confinement of a criminal to his or her own residence, usually under a condition of electronic monitoring or other surveillance, imposed by a court as a more lenient alternative to imprisonment.
- noun Confinement of a political activist to his or her own residence, usually under a condition of limited outside communication, imposed by an oppressive regime as a means of reducing the activist's effectiveness.
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- noun law The situation where a person is confined, by the authorities, to his or her residence, possibly with travel allowed but restricted. Used as a lenient alternative to
prison time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun confinement to your own home
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Examples
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Sirasa reports that Dayananda Dissanayake, the election commissioner has been placed under house arrest, BBC reports its worse - but no one really knows … Surely one thing is for sure; parents won't send their kids to school tomorrow.
Kottu 2010
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