house arrest

noun

: 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

Word History

First Known Use

1810, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of house arrest was in 1810

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“House arrest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20arrest. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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