house arrest
house arrest noun: 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.
Noun
house arrest (countable and uncountable, plural house arrests)
- 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.
- Convicted in Federal District Court in Brooklyn of insurance fraud, a 35-year-old legal secretary could have received up to 50 years in prison and a $56,000 fine. The judge sentenced her instead to house arrest for two years.1986 July 20, Richard Haitch, “Follow-up on the News: House Arrest Instead of Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Apr 2014
house arrest meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
house arrest in Hindi
- house arrest
- नज़रबंदी nazarbandī
house arrest in Urdu
- خانہ بندی, نظر بندی
house arrest in Bengali
- confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence
- গৃহবন্দি grihobondi
house arrest in Telugu
- confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence
- గృహ నిర్బంధం gr̥ha nirbandhaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- house arrest in Malayalam
- വീട്ടുതടങ്കൽ vīṭṭutaṭaṅkal
- house arrest in Kannada
- ಗೃಹಬಂಧನ, ಗೃಹನಿರ್ಬಂಧ, ಸ್ಥಾನಬದ್ಧತೆ
- house arrest in Arabic
- إِقَامَة جَبْرِيَّة
- house arrest in Indonesian
- tahanan rumah
- house arrest in Persian
- حبس خانگی
- house arrest in Vietnamese
- quản thúc tại gia
Forms of house arrest
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Questions about house arrest
- What does house arrest mean?
- House arrest means 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.
- What is house arrest in Hindi?
- House arrest in Hindi is नज़रबंदी (nazarbandī). See House arrest meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is house arrest?
- House arrest is a noun.
- What is the plural of house arrest?
- The plural of house arrest is house arrests.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: house arrest (page history and authors); नज़रबंदी (Hindi) (page history and authors); house arrest (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); house arrest (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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