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| house arrest |
| 1. n. (legal) 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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| house |
| 1. n. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. |
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| This is my house and my family's ancestral home. |
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| 2. n. The people who live in a house; a household. |
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| 3. n. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). |
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| The former carriage house had been made over into a guest house. |
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| arrest |
| 1. n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something. |
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| 2. n. The condition of being stopped, standstill. |
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| 3. n. (legal) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. |
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| 4. n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest. |
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| 5. n. A device to physically arrest motion. |
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