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What does house arrest mean?

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Noun
  1. (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.
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Mr Clarke has responded by taking powers to keep all terrorist suspects under house arrest outside prison.
He was held in custody for almost four months and then released under house arrest.
After the decision, the extradition case continued while Pinochet remained under house arrest.
On a visit to England for medical treatment in 1998, he was arrested and put under house arrest.
The activity was highly unusual as the barricaded street leading to her house has been left untended since her house arrest began.
His heliocentric model resulted in troubling the religious fundies so much that he died finally under house arrest.

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