house arrest

English

Noun

house arrest (countable and uncountable, plural house arrests)

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.
   • 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