Confined
Confined adjective - Taken and held prisoner.
Defined and confined are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Defined" instead an adjective "Confined".
Nearby Words: confinement, confining
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The education requirements are raised in 5, where they are defined as people willingly confined and denied a variety of freedoms as a reward for their devoted studying in college.
Source: Video Game / Tropico -
Or the opposite, they are confined to a defined area (often for ghosts).
Source: Glamour Failure -
The future Civilization's federal government in the later books is not defined in very great detail, as it has little impact on everyday life and seems confined mostly to law enforcement and military defense; the highest-bracket income tax clocks out at somewhere around 3.5 percent.
Source: Literature / Lensman
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