house arrest
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Definition(s):
- (n) confinement to your own home
Usage(s):
- Weeks later, as tanks rolled through Beijing, Zhao was already under house arrest, where he would spend the rest of his life.
- 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of her house arrest were illegal and that she is being tried under a provision of a constitution that has been superseded.
- Clinton commuted his sentence to house arrest.
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