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house arrests

house arrests is the plural of house arrest.

Meaning of house arrest

Noun

house arrest (countable and uncountable, plural house arrests)

  1. 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

Questions about house arrests

What is house arrests the plural of?
House arrests is the plural of house arrest.

Words near house arrests in the dictionary

  1. house advantage
  2. house advantages
  3. house agent
  4. house agents
  5. house arrest
  6. house arrests
  7. house ball
  8. house balls
  9. house band
  10. house bands
  11. house barn

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