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What does imprisonment mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word imprisonment? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
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Few expected the ravages of war, and none expected the deprivation of imprisonment.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson, a huge fort in the Dry Tortugas, islands 70 miles off the Florida keys.
The mood was jubilant and Edith thought that her exile and imprisonment were finally over.
In Italy he was convicted in his absence of aggravated fraud and sentenced to imprisonment and to a fine.
A 1923 French law increased penalties for abortion to imprisonment for abortionists and their clients.
Agroterrorism would be punishable by fines, imprisonment for up to life, and carry the death penalty in the most serious cases.

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