FALSE IMPRISONMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does false imprisonment mean? 

• FALSE IMPRISONMENT (noun)
  The noun FALSE IMPRISONMENT has 1 sense:

1. (law) confinement without legal authority

  Familiarity information: FALSE IMPRISONMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSE IMPRISONMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) confinement without legal authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("false imprisonment" is a kind of...):

imprisonment; internment (the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)