house-arrest

Monitored home detention

House arrest is confinement to one's home as a form of legal punishment or pretrial restriction, typically enforced with an electronic ankle monitor: She served six months under house arrest.

The term extends loosely to any forced confinement at home: The snowstorm put us on house arrest for three days.

confinement

restriction

Limit on action

isolation · limitation · detention · enclosure · containment · lockdown · quarantine · perimeter · residence · dwelling

legal

sentence

Complete thought, grammatically

probation · detention · judiciary · verdict · penalty · sanction · offender · defendant · plea · arraignment

monitoring

GPS

Satellite-based location technology

check-ins · reporting · supervision · enforcement · officer · alert · notification · schedule · compliance · violation

Opposites
freedom of movement

house-arrestfree movement

Unrestricted ability to travel

freedom of movement · freedom · liberty · free to go · release

severity of confinement

house-arrestmaximum-security prison

Highest-level detention facility

solitary confinement · maximum security · hard labor · supermax · death row

Family

house, arrest, houses, housed, housing, housekeeper, housekeeping, household, households

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG