caging

Verb

cage (third-person singular simple present cages, present participle caging, simple past and past participle caged)

1. (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
   • And the row of human captors, ever leering, They who caged me, Know their power and gloat on my captivity.1923, Animal World: An Advocate of Humanity, page 33
2. (slang, transitive) To imprison.
   • The serial killer was caged for life.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
4. To immobilize an artificial horizon.
   • To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.
5. To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.

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