CONFINEMENT


Meaning of CONFINEMENT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

solitary confinement

He spent more than half his time in prison in solitary confinement.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

close

Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems, for example, do not fare well, all considered?

From that time she was kept in close confinement and treated with cruelty.

More than half the sows are kept in close confinement systems.

Being in close confinement and everything like that.

Probably, in the close confinement , he would suffocate in his own smoke.

solitary

There is plenty of evidence, too, that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick.

Xi is in solitary confinement , allowed only monthly visits with his father.

Asylum seekers, with tales of torture, rape and solitary confinement , can go to the end of the queue.

When I was in solitary confinement I was in a state of hatred.

I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison, or more than one year of solitary confinement .

Fry opposed the penal reformers' prevailing orthodoxy of solitary confinement .

I spent the vast majority of my time in solitary confinement .

■ VERB

hold

For the next seven weeks, Gobalkrishnan was held in solitary confinement and denied access to a lawyer or his family.

Mordechai Vanunu continues to be held in solitary confinement in Ashkelon prison.

Tonight he's being held in solitary confinement .

Until more is known concerning his death, I judge that you must be held in confinement within my custody.

He was held in solitary confinement in the General Intelligence headquarters in Riyadh and was reportedly tortured.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

During his confinement , Wen taught himself how to read.

He was sentenced to 5 months of home confinement for the crime.

Prisoners are punished by being put in solitary confinement .

She was sentenced to 15 days' confinement in her cell for violating a direct order.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And although federally sponsored hospitals for specific diseases are uncommon in the United States, federally sponsored places of confinement are not.

Asylum seekers, with tales of torture, rape and solitary confinement , can go to the end of the queue.

Fry opposed the penal reformers' prevailing orthodoxy of solitary confinement .

It was the light also of that china-cabinet room in the apartment where he had suffered confinement with Shula-Slawa.

Sien was admitted for her confinement while he was still in hospital himself.

The thought of confinement can make me ill at ease.

These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable.

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