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What does house arrest mean?

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Noun
  1. (law) Confinement of a person to his or her residence, sometimes with a limited travel allowance, ordered by a judge or other authority as a more lenient alternative to imprisonment.
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Mr Clarke has responded by taking powers to keep all terrorist suspects under house arrest outside prison.
Even while on house arrest he has been unable to ensure that he is available for them.
The activity was highly unusual as the barricaded street leading to her house has been left untended since her house arrest began.
After being held under house arrest to international uproar, he was released to join the team in Guadalajara.
After the decision, the extradition case continued while Pinochet remained under house arrest.
During the first few days of curfew, the city looked like a ghost town, the population holed up under collective house arrest.

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