: confinement often under guard to one's house or quarters instead of in prison
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In season three, Georgia is on house arrest during her trial for murdering Cynthia’s (Sabrina Grdevich) husband, Tom.—Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025 So just months before the restaurant’s 2021 opening, he was placed on house arrest—and saw his empire of sober-living homes crumble and his ability to obtain new business licenses blocked because of his felony conviction.—Kizzy Cox, Essence, 4 June 2025 His diary-like home production This Is Not a Film was produced under house arrest, while the masterful Taxi was shot within the confines of a cab that the director himself drove around Tehran.—Eric Kohn, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025 Subramanian rejected the idea Combs be kept under house arrest at a home with a boat dock in Miami but seemed open to potentially releasing him to confinement with around-the-clock security at a three-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.—Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for house arrest
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