House arrest
House arrest noun - Confinement to your own home.
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Synonyms for House arrest
Prison and house arrest are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prison" instead a noun phrase "House arrest".
Prison
Prison noun - The act of confining or the state of being confined.
Usage example: the view that prison does nothing to cure the criminal—if anything, it makes him worse
House arrest and prison are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "House arrest" instead a noun "Prison".
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- Marnie is under a year's house arrest with an electronic tracking bracelet limiting her to the eponymous hundred feet in 100 Feet after serving two years in an actual prison.
Source: Implicit Prison -
This is actually Truth in Television; greats like Al Capone, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Pablo Escobar and Augusto Pinochet were kept under house arrest or housed in very, very nice prison cells (at least until Capone got transferred to Alcatraz).
Source: Luxury Prison Suite -
Beleaguered Childhood Friend: Rome did three years in prison and ended up on house arrest prior to 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Source: Film / The Fast and the Furious
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