quarantining

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

quarantining

  1. present participle and gerund of quarantine

Noun[edit]

quarantining (usually uncountable, plural quarantinings)

  1. The action of establishing or entering a quarantine.
    • 1990, “TAXATION LAWS AMENDMENT (FOREIGN INCOME) BILL 1990”, in Australian Taxation Office[1], archived from the original on 2024-05-09:
      Amendments proposed by this Bill will remove the restriction that the foreign income be from the same foreign source - that is, per country quarantining will be eliminated. This will apply to deductions for losses claimed in the 1990- 91 income year and subsequent years.
    • 2020, J. Brent Crosson, Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad, University of Chicago Press, page 52:
      Speaking about obeah with people in Rio Moro before the police shootings, then, I often met with disavowal, condemnation, or a temporal quarantining of obeah in a moribund past.
    • 2021 January 12, Abdulkarim Abdulrahman, Manaf AlSabbagh, Abdulla AlAwadhi, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Ali A. Rabaan, Stephen Atkin, Manaf AlQahtani, “Quarantining arriving travelers in the era of COVID-19: balancing the risk and benefits a learning experience from Bahrain”, in Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, volume 7, number 1, →DOI:
      The quarantine measures may not be necessary. In this manuscript we discuss Bahrain’s data and experience about quarantining of international travelers.
    • 2021 May 27, Holly Lawton, “Pacific Labour Scheme: expanding while borders are closed”, in devpolicy[2], archived from the original on 2024-05-09:
      The concept of in-country quarantining is commendable, but one still wonders why covid-free countries like Vanuatu, Solomons (? maybe one or two cases) and Samoa even need to have quarantining in the first place, given that NZ and AU have a “bubble” and even interstate travellers can still cross the VIC border currently with their outbreak that far exceeds the total number of any of those countries cases, ever.
    • 2021 June 23, Vir B Bulchandani, Saumya Shivam, Sanjay Moudgalya, S L Sondhi, “Digital herd immunity and COVID-19”, in Physical Biology, volume 18, number 4, →DOI:
      This immunity arises because contact-tracing protocols based on smartphone capabilities can lead to highly efficient quarantining of infected population members and thus the extinguishing of nascent epidemics.