"house arrest" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (law) Confinement of a person to his or her residence, sometimes with a limited travel allowance, ordered by a judge or other authority as a more lenient alternative to imprisonment. Wikipedia link: house arrest Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law, Prison Translations (confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence): إقامة جبرية (Arabic), տնային կալանք (tnayin kalankʻ) (Armenian), дамашні арышт (damašni aryšt) [masculine] (Belarusian), গৃহবন্দি (grihobondi) (Bengali), домашен арест (domašen arest) [masculine] (Bulgarian), arrest domiciliari [masculine] (Catalan), 軟禁 (Chinese Mandarin), 软禁 (ruǎnjìn) (Chinese Mandarin), 幽禁 (yōujìn) (Chinese Mandarin), domácí vězení [neuter] (Czech), husarrest [common-gender] (Danish), huisarrest (Dutch), hejmaresto (Esperanto), koduarest (Estonian), kotiaresti (Finnish), résidence surveillée [feminine] (French), assignation à résidence [feminine] (French), Hausarrest [masculine] (German), מעצר בית [masculine] (Hebrew), házi őrizet (Hungarian), tahanan rumah (Indonesian), braighdeanas baile [masculine] (Irish), arresti domiciliari [masculine, plural] (Italian), detenzione domiciliare [feminine] (Italian), 軟禁 (nankin) (Japanese), үй қамақ (üi qamaq) (Kazakh), үйқамақ (üiqamaq) (Kazakh), 가택 연금 (gataeng nyeon'geum) (Korean), namų areštas (Lithuanian), വീട്ടുതടങ്കൽ (vīṭṭutaṭaṅkal) (Malayalam), husarrest [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), husarrest [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), حبس خانگی (Persian), areszt domowy [masculine] (Polish), prisão domiciliária [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), prisão domiciliar [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), arest la domiciliu [neuter] (Romanian), дома́шний аре́ст (domášnij arést) [masculine] (Russian), arraigo domiciliario [masculine] (Spanish), arresto domiciliario [masculine] (Spanish), kizuizini nyumbani (Swahili), husarrest [common-gender] (Swedish), గృహ నిర్బంధం (gr̥ha nirbandhaṁ) (Telugu), ev hapsi (Turkish), дома́шній аре́шт (domášnij aréšt) [masculine] (Ukrainian), quản thúc tại gia (Vietnamese)
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      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "গৃহবন্দি"
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      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "arrest domiciliari"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "軟禁"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "ruǎnjìn",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "软禁"
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      "roman": "yōujìn",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "幽禁"
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      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "husarrest"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "huisarrest"
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      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "hejmaresto"
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "koduarest"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "kotiaresti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "résidence surveillée"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "assignation à résidence"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hausarrest"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "מעצר בית"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "házi őrizet"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "tahanan rumah"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "braighdeanas baile"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "arresti domiciliari"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "detenzione domiciliare"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nankin",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "軟禁"
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      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "üi qamaq",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "үй қамақ"
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      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "üiqamaq",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "үйқамақ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gataeng nyeon'geum",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "가택 연금"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "namų areštas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "vīṭṭutaṭaṅkal",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "വീട്ടുതടങ്കൽ"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "husarrest"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "husarrest"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "حبس خانگی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "areszt domowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prisão domiciliária"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prisão domiciliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "arest la domiciliu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "domášnij arést",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дома́шний аре́ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arraigo domiciliario"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arresto domiciliario"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "kizuizini nyumbani"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "husarrest"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "gr̥ha nirbandhaṁ",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "గృహ నిర్బంధం"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "ev hapsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "domášnij aréšt",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дома́шній аре́шт"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence",
      "word": "quản thúc tại gia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "house arrest"
}

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