curfews
Evening return requirements
Curfews is the plural of curfew—a regulation requiring people to be indoors or off the streets by a specified time.
Governments impose curfews during emergencies, wars, or civil unrest.
Parents set curfews for teenagers: Her curfew was midnight on weekends.
The word originally referred to the evening bell signaling time to extinguish fires and retire for the night.
Enforced restriction on movement
- martial lawArmed forces governance
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
shelter-in-place · evacuation · civil unrest · riots · state of emergency · restrictions · enforcement · patrol
Designated hour for retiring
- groundingConnecting to earth
- teenagersPeople aged thirteen to nineteen
- rulesPrinciples governing behavior
- householdDomestic unit of residents
permission · sneaking out · midnight · weeknight · supervision · adolescents · discipline · negotiation
Those below legal age
- teenagersPeople aged thirteen to nineteen
- juvenileYoung person or animal
- drivingControlling a vehicle
- mallEnclosed shopping center
arcade · loitering · truancy · daytime · nighttime · police · citations · parents
Struck metal sound-makers
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- town crierOfficial public announcer
- fire preventionStopping combustion before ignition
- colonialOf occupied territories
ordinance · sunset · gates · walled city · night watch · hearth · feudal · proclamation
lockdown
Enforced restriction on movement
- martial lawArmed forces governance
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
quarantine · shelter-in-place · evacuation · civil unrest · riots · state of emergency · restrictions · enforcement · patrol · sirens
bedtime
Designated hour for retiring
- groundingConnecting to earth
- teenagersPeople aged thirteen to nineteen
- rulesPrinciples governing behavior
household · permission · sneaking out · midnight · weeknight · supervision · adolescents · discipline · negotiation · allowance
minors
Those below legal age
mall · arcade · loitering · truancy · daytime · nighttime · police · citations · parents · liability
bells
Struck metal sound-makers
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- town crierOfficial public announcer
- fire preventionStopping combustion before ignition
colonial · ordinance · sunset · gates · walled city · night watch · hearth · feudal · proclamation · monarchy
- teenagersangst, prom, attitude, back talk, brooding
- Irish HistoryGreat Famine, Easter Rising, Irish nationalism, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
- city lawscity charter, city charters, housing laws, traffic rules, zoning laws
- emergency measuresbailouts, emergency funds, emergency powers, relief bills, stimulus
- enforcementenforcement actions, crackdown, fines, enforcement agencies, penalties
- local regulationsnoise ordinances, zoning, building codes, housing codes, health codes
curfewsfreedom of movement
Liberty to travel unimpeded
free rein · liberty · free passage · liberation · permission slips
curfewsopen-door policy
Unrestricted access principle
free passage · free movement · open borders · laissez-passer · freedom to roam
curfewscivil liberties
Rights limiting government power
personal freedom · permissiveness · libertarianism · deregulation · anarchy
- curfew lawsRegulations limiting nighttime movement
- breaking curfewIgnoring mandated return time
- curfew ordersGovernment-imposed nighttime restrictions
- curfew violationBeing out past mandated time
- curfew enforcementEnsuring curfew compliance
- curfew zoneArea with time-based restrictions