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House Arrest

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Noun

1. house arrest

confinement to your own home

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

House Arrest

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noun
confinement to one's own home

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House Arrest

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detention, often under guard, of an arrested person in that person's own home, a hospital, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

House Arrest

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n.
1. 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.
2. 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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