home (house) arrest
1house arrest — Confinement to one s home or another specified location instead of incarceration in a jail or prison. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. house arrest Confinement to one s home or a …
2house arrest — house ar,rest noun uncount be under house arrest to be officially prevented from leaving your home, usually because you have been accused of a political crime …
3house arrest — house′ arrest n. confinement of an arrested person to his or her home or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of a jail • Etymology: 1935–40 …
4house arrest — n. detention, often under guard, of an arrested person in that person s own home, a hospital, etc …
5House arrest — For other uses, see House arrest (disambiguation). In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to his or her residence.… …
6house arrest — noun confinement to your own home • Hypernyms: ↑confinement * * * noun [noncount] law : the condition of being forced to stay in your home rather than in prison as a form of punishment often used with under He was placed under house arrest until… …
7House Arrest (The Sopranos episode) — Infobox Television episode | Title = House Arrest Series = The Sopranos Season = 2 Episode = 24 Guests= see below Airdate = March 26, 2000 (HBO) Production = 211 Writer = Terence Winter Director = Tim Van Patten Episode list = Episode chronology… …
8house arrest — N UNCOUNT: usu under N If someone is under house arrest, they are officially ordered not to leave their home, because they are suspected of being involved in an illegal activity. The main opposition leaders had been arrested or placed under house …
9be under house arrest — phrase to be officially prevented from leaving your home, usually because you have been accused of a political crime Thesaurus: punishments outside of prisonhyponym Main entry: house arrest …
10house — n. & v. n. (pl.) 1 a a building for human habitation. b (attrib.) (of an animal) kept in, frequenting, or infesting houses (house cat; housefly). 2 a building for a special purpose (opera house; summer house). 3 a building for keeping animals or… …
