place in confinement

  • 1place in confinement — index arrest (apprehend), commit (institutionalize), imprison, jail Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2place of confinement — index jail, penitentiary Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 3confinement — con|fine|ment [kənˈfaınmənt] n 1.) [U] formal the act of putting someone in a room, prison etc that they are not allowed to leave, or the state of being there ▪ They were held in confinement for three weeks. ▪ He visited prisoners at their place… …

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  • 4confinement — con·fine·ment n 1: the act of confining 2: the state of being confined Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. confinement …

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  • 5ORCUS (i. e. place of confinement), another name for Hades, or the World of the Dead; also of the god of the nether world. —    a test by fire, water, poison, wager of battle, or the like, of the innocence or guilt of persons in appeal thereby to the judgment of God in default of other evidence, on the superstitious belief that by means of it God would interfere to… …

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  • 6confinement — [[t]kənfa͟ɪnmənt[/t]] confinements 1) N UNCOUNT Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave. She had been held in solitary confinement for four months... He d obviously kept himself fit… …

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  • 7confinement — UK [kənˈfaɪnmənt] / US noun Word forms confinement : singular confinement plural confinements 1) [uncountable] a situation in which someone is forced to stay in a place, especially a prison, and not allowed to leave She started writing poetry… …

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  • 8confinement — con|fine|ment [ kən faınmənt ] noun 1. ) uncount a situation in which someone is forced to stay in a place, especially a prison, and not allowed to leave 2. ) count or uncount OLD FASHIONED the time during which a pregnant woman gives birth …

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  • 9confinement — [kənˈfaɪnmənt] noun [U] a situation in which someone is forced to stay in a place …

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  • 10New Safe Confinement — Computer impression of the New Safe Confinement to cover No.4 Reactor at Chernobyl The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter) is the structure intended to contain the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine, part of which was destroyed by the… …

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