house arrest

English

Noun

house arrest (countable and uncountable, plural house arrests)

(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.
- 1986 July 20, Richard Haitch, “Follow-up on the News: House Arrest Instead of Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 April 2014:
  Convicted in Federal District Court in Brooklyn of insurance fraud, a 35-year-old legal secretary could have received up to 50 years in prison and a $56,000 fine. The judge sentenced her instead to house arrest for two years.

Translations

confinement of a person, by authorities, to his or her residence

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: إقامة جبرية
Armenian: տնային կալանք (tnayin kalankʻ)
Belarusian: дамашні арышт m (damašni aryšt)
Bengali: গৃহবন্দি (bn) (grihobondi)
Bulgarian: домашен арест m (domašen arest)
Catalan: arrest domiciliari m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 軟禁／软禁 (zh) (ruǎnjìn), 幽禁 (zh) (yōujìn)
Czech: domácí vězení (cs) n
Danish: husarrest c
Dutch: huisarrest (nl)
Esperanto: hejmaresto
Estonian: koduarest
Finnish: kotiaresti (fi)
French: résidence surveillée f, assignation à résidence (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Hausarrest (de) m
Hausa: מעצר בית
Hungarian: házi őrizet (hu)
Indonesian: tahanan rumah (id)
Irish: braighdeanas baile m
Italian: arresti domiciliari m pl, detenzione domiciliare f
Japanese: 軟禁 (ja) (nankin)
Kazakh: үй қамақ (üi qamaq), үйқамақ (üiqamaq)
Korean: 가택 연금 (gataeng nyeon'geum)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: namų areštas
Malayalam: വീട്ടുതടങ്കൽ (vīṭṭutaṭaṅkal)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: husarrest m

Nynorsk: husarrest m
Persian: حبس خانگی
Polish: areszt domowy (pl) m
Portuguese: prisão domiciliária f (Portugal), prisão domiciliar f (Brazil)
Romanian: arest la domiciliu n
Russian: дома́шний аре́ст (ru) m (domášnij arést)
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: arraigo domiciliario m, arresto domiciliario m
Swahili: kizuizini nyumbani
Swedish: husarrest (sv) c
Telugu: గృహ నిర్బంధం (gr̥ha nirbandhaṁ)
Turkish: ev hapsi
Ukrainian: дома́шній аре́шт m (domášnij aréšt)
Vietnamese: quản thúc tại gia

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