: confinement often under guard to one's house or quarters instead of in prison
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He was placed on house arrest in 2020 and released later that year.—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025 Jared Blue-Lowry shot Lacy in the shoulder just two days after Lacy started a house arrest term for a prior gun possession conviction, court records show.—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025 In the Paramount+ series, McGregor plays Russian aristocrat Alexander Rostov, who avoids being put to death as he is placed on house arrest during the Bolshevik Revolution.—Esther Kang, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025 Following her September release, she was placed under house arrest in Indiana.—Sabrina Clay, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for house arrest
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