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Definition of confinement in English: confinementnoun kənˈfʌɪnməntkənˈfaɪnmənt mass noun1The action of confining or state of being confined. he was immediately released from his confinement Example sentencesExamples - When a person has been duly convicted of a crime carrying a jail term, confinement is automatically authorized.
- We do not rely primarily on preventive confinement - the incarceration of a person in anticipation of what he will do in the future.
- Some of those concerned were prosecuted as offenders, others were not: a great deal depended on individual circumstances, the nature of the referring agency, and the availability of funds to pay for such confinement.
- Thus, the Board may only direct the prisoner's release if satisfied that his confinement is no longer necessary for the protection of the public.
- Obviously, such behavior is no basis for compelled treatment and surely none for confinement.
- I've had the unenjoyable task of escorting chained prisoners from confinement to trial to prison.
- He feels that [the patient] does not cope well with confinement and being in close proximity to people he believes are more seriously ill than her.
- In fact, seldom will confinement, detention be the better course to adopt.
- But is not the place and manner of confinement of a prisoner under sentence a matter wholly for the Executive?
- Additionally, horses entered by the trainer within 30 days of the violation may be subject to confinement in a detention barn on race days at the expense of the trainer or the horses' owners.
- Also listed as ‘problem areas’ were lack of police accountability, overcrowded prisons and confinement of children in substandard or abusive correctional facilities.
- When detained immigrants do find lawyers, confinement makes the detainees more difficult to represent.
- In my judgment the fact that there are mandatory requirements for release, which affect the Secretary of State, does not affect the legal basis of a prisoner's confinement, namely the length of sentence imposed by the court.
- Needless to say, the ex-detainee himself had no clue as to the reasons behind his arrest and confinement.
- A married couple were detained in the same prison, but in separate confinement, for a period of about two months.
- What is more, the validity of the continued confinement depends upon the persistence of such a disorder.
- Unlawful confinement involves a physical restraint, contrary to the wishes of the person restrained.
- There is no external scrutiny of their use, no limit on the length of time a detainee can spend there, and no way for detainees to appeal against their confinement.
- In other words, it is said he should have concluded that the circumstantial evidence was not capable of supporting such an inference and as such there was no evidence of an act of confinement which would support the committal.
- If incarceration is necessary, then the defence submits that upper reformatory confinement is adequate penalty.
Synonyms imprisonment, internment, incarceration, custody, captivity, detention, restraint, arrest, house arrest literary thraldom, thrall archaic duress, durance penning, caging, locking up, walling in/up, enclosure, encirclement, surrounding, encompassment quarantine North American corralling rare immurement 2dated The condition of being in childbirth. the pros and cons of home versus hospital confinement count noun my grandmother's last six confinements Example sentencesExamples - Their love is the greatest a woman can hope for in life, and it is irrecoverable, except in brief moments during confinement, if a woman is allowed to give birth in her parents' house.
- The churching ceremony in medieval Europe followed the lying-in period, or confinement.
- Mother had given her a beautifully embroidered pocket, that Mama had been sewing during her long confinement before the birth of Thomas and Lettie.
- A confinement of six weeks used to apply to new mothers and I am a firm believer in the benefits of this enforced rest.
- Application for maternity benefits must be made at least eight weeks before confinement, or within six months of the birth of the child.
Synonyms labour, (expected) delivery, giving birth, birthing birth, childbirth, nativity technical parturition archaic lying-in, accouchement, childbed, travail
Definition of confinement in US English: confinementnounkənˈfaɪnməntkənˈfīnmənt 1The action of confining or state of being confined. he was immediately released from his confinement Example sentencesExamples - When a person has been duly convicted of a crime carrying a jail term, confinement is automatically authorized.
- But is not the place and manner of confinement of a prisoner under sentence a matter wholly for the Executive?
- In other words, it is said he should have concluded that the circumstantial evidence was not capable of supporting such an inference and as such there was no evidence of an act of confinement which would support the committal.
- Obviously, such behavior is no basis for compelled treatment and surely none for confinement.
- We do not rely primarily on preventive confinement - the incarceration of a person in anticipation of what he will do in the future.
- Additionally, horses entered by the trainer within 30 days of the violation may be subject to confinement in a detention barn on race days at the expense of the trainer or the horses' owners.
- In fact, seldom will confinement, detention be the better course to adopt.
- What is more, the validity of the continued confinement depends upon the persistence of such a disorder.
- A married couple were detained in the same prison, but in separate confinement, for a period of about two months.
- If incarceration is necessary, then the defence submits that upper reformatory confinement is adequate penalty.
- Needless to say, the ex-detainee himself had no clue as to the reasons behind his arrest and confinement.
- Thus, the Board may only direct the prisoner's release if satisfied that his confinement is no longer necessary for the protection of the public.
- In my judgment the fact that there are mandatory requirements for release, which affect the Secretary of State, does not affect the legal basis of a prisoner's confinement, namely the length of sentence imposed by the court.
- Also listed as ‘problem areas’ were lack of police accountability, overcrowded prisons and confinement of children in substandard or abusive correctional facilities.
- When detained immigrants do find lawyers, confinement makes the detainees more difficult to represent.
- There is no external scrutiny of their use, no limit on the length of time a detainee can spend there, and no way for detainees to appeal against their confinement.
- Unlawful confinement involves a physical restraint, contrary to the wishes of the person restrained.
- He feels that [the patient] does not cope well with confinement and being in close proximity to people he believes are more seriously ill than her.
- Some of those concerned were prosecuted as offenders, others were not: a great deal depended on individual circumstances, the nature of the referring agency, and the availability of funds to pay for such confinement.
- I've had the unenjoyable task of escorting chained prisoners from confinement to trial to prison.
Synonyms imprisonment, internment, incarceration, custody, captivity, detention, restraint, arrest, house arrest penning, caging, locking up, walling in, walling up, enclosure, encirclement, surrounding, encompassment 2dated The condition of being in childbirth. the pros and cons of home versus hospital confinement my grandmother's last six confinements Example sentencesExamples - Application for maternity benefits must be made at least eight weeks before confinement, or within six months of the birth of the child.
- Their love is the greatest a woman can hope for in life, and it is irrecoverable, except in brief moments during confinement, if a woman is allowed to give birth in her parents' house.
- The churching ceremony in medieval Europe followed the lying-in period, or confinement.
- A confinement of six weeks used to apply to new mothers and I am a firm believer in the benefits of this enforced rest.
- Mother had given her a beautifully embroidered pocket, that Mama had been sewing during her long confinement before the birth of Thomas and Lettie.
Synonyms labour, delivery, expected delivery, giving birth, birthing
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