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HOUSE ARREST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does house arrest mean?
• HOUSE ARREST (noun)
The noun HOUSE ARREST has 1 sense:
1. confinement to your own home
Familiarity information: HOUSE ARREST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confinement to your own home
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("house arrest" is a kind of...):
confinement (the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them)
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