| 单词 | house arrest |
| 释义 | house arrestSEE SYNONYMS FOR house arrest ON THESAURUS.COM nounconfinement of an arrested person to his or her residence or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of in a jail: He was under house arrest until the day of his trial. Origin of house arrestFirst recorded in 1935–40 Words nearby house arresthourly, hours, Housatonic, house, house agent, house arrest, houseboat, housebound, houseboy, house brand, housebreak Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for house arrest
British Dictionary definitions for house arresthouse arrest nounconfinement to one's own home Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for house arresthouse arrest Forcible detention in one's house rather than in a prison. House arrest is used by some nations as a way to silence political dissent without the elaborate trials and criminal proceedings that would bring bad publicity. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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