house arrest Meaning of "house arrest"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) confinement to your own home

Usage(s):

  1. Weeks later, as tanks rolled through Beijing, Zhao was already under house arrest, where he would spend the rest of his life.
  2. Her lawyers have argued that the repeated extensions of her house arrest were illegal and that she is being tried under a provision of a constitution that has been superseded.
  3. Clinton commuted his sentence to house arrest.
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