house arrest
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈhaʊs əˈrɛst/
- Formal
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arresto domiciliario
- After committing a minor offense, she was placed under house arrest instead of going to prison.
- placed under house arrest
- life under house arrest
- house arrest for a year
So instead of getting house arrest, he gets six years, right?
- So instead of getting house arrest, he gets six years, right?
- We read the entirety of his Consolation of Philosophy, which he writes while under house arrest awaiting execution.
- So I got into, it's very interesting how I got into my current line of work while I was under house arrest.
- He put one of my relatives under house arrest because he refused to enact Chavez's wishes, which would make the country poorer.
- And she left with her two young kids, went to Miami with her two young sisters, moved to Miami and waited for my grandparents who were under house arrest.
- And in the UK we've spent months in lockdown, similar to house arrest you could say, and with very little political debate.
- I wrote that and I was on house arrest.
- And the judge sent it's me to seven months of house arrest.
- And he did, he had, he spent three months in jail and then three months house, house arrest.
Examples
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I'm basically on house arrest until my hearing.
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After his release, he was under house arrest for a year and was forbidden to make press statements.
Academic text (1990) -
During my days of house arrest, it felt as though I were no longer part of the real world.
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So instead of getting house arrest, he gets six years, right?
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So part of the getting house arrest was that I had two years to just work and focus on myself.
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This journal was so helpful to me when I was under house arrest and for many years after.
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All Catholic religious orders were banned, and several bishops were placed under house arrest.
Academic text (1999) -
Mosaddegh was imprisoned for three years, then put under house arrest until his death.
Blog text (34) -
Galileo spent the latter part of his life under house arrest for heresy against the Catholic Church.
Blog text (9) -
After the Shah overthrew Mossadeq's government, he spent the rest of his life either in jail or under house arrest.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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3.9
A situation in which someone is kept and not allowed to leave, often by police until a decision is made
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6.7
Being held by police or officials for a short time
Antonyms
How Restrictive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'house' (one's home) and 'arrest' (legal detention): it denotes being legally confined to one's home rather than imprisoned. This noun-noun composition follows a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
House arrest comes from a simple, literal idea: a person is kept under arrest in their own house instead of going to prison. Picture police at the door or an electronic tag that stops someone leaving, so the phrase means 'to be legally required to stay at home' as a form of punishment or while waiting for trial.