From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Jail & punishment, Birthconfinementcon‧fine‧ment /kənˈfaɪnmənt/ noun1[uncountable] formalSCJ the act of putting someone in a room, prison etc that they are not allowed to leave, or the state of being there
They were held in confinement for three weeks.
He visited prisoners at their place of confinement. →solitary confinement2[countable, uncountable] old-fashioned or formalMB the time when a woman gives birth to a baby
the pros and cons of home versus hospital confinementExamples from the Corpusconfinement• She was sentenced to 15 days' confinement in her cell for violating a direct order.• Sien was admitted for her confinement while he was still in hospital himself.• During his confinement, Wen taught himself how to read.• He was sentenced to 5 months of home confinement for the crime.• And although federally sponsored hospitals for specificdiseases are uncommon in the United States, federally sponsored places of confinement are not.• The thought of confinement can make me ill at ease.• Prisoners are punished by being put in solitaryconfinement.• Fryopposed the penal reformers' prevailingorthodoxy of solitary confinement.• These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an electiontimetable.
