What does house arrest mean?

house arrest means "confinement to your own home".

Is house arrest a common word?

house arrest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

House arrest — meaning and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
confinement to your own home
Broaderconfinement

Questions about house arrest

What does house arrest mean?: house arrest means "confinement to your own home".
Is house arrest a common word?: house arrest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for house arrest come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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