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Definition of House arrest
1. Noun. Confinement to your own home.
Definition of House arrest
1. Noun. (legal) The situation where a person is confined, by the authorities, to his or her residence, possibly with travel allowed but restricted. Used as a lenient alternative to prison time. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of House Arrest
Literary usage of House arrest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Intermediate Sanctions in Sentencing Guidelines by Michael Tonry (1998)
"house arrest and Electronic Monitoring The lines that distinguish community ...
house arrest often called home confinement has as a precursor the curfew ..."
2. Creating Enemies of the State: Religious Persecution in Uzbekistan by Acacia Shields (2004)
"They also at times hold under house arrest the family members of detained individuals.
In many cases, particularly those involving female relatives, ..."
3. Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National by Gustaaf Houtman (1999)
"One of her biographers summed up her attitude to house arrest as follows: ...
I was under house arrest ... All right, this is not the most beautiful house ..."
4. Spirals of Suffering: Public Violence and Children by Brian Rock (1997)
"The regulation of house arrest results in the disruption of family life, ...
According to the HRC (1989) the effects of house arrest are dramatic and severe ..."
5. Russia's Message: The True World Import of the Revolution by William English Walling (1908)
"... while he was under house arrest with the gendarmes before his door. It was
just about one year after the first congress of the union. ..."
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