confinement

noun — 3 senses

confinement

noun

/kənˈfaɪnmənt/

Etymology Borrowed from French confinement. By surface analysis, confine + -ment.

1

The act of confining or the state of being confined.

“A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz. Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice are pending,” NCIS told CNN in a statement Thursday.2025 June 13, Rosa Flores, “Missing Navy sailor found dead in Virginia, another sailor in custody”, in CNN:

2

Dated Lying-in, time of giving birth.

In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629:
At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers:

3

lockdown

Derived terms: anticonfinement, bioconfinement, confinement loaf, confinement time, deconfinement, energy confinement time, expected date of confinement, nanoconfinement, nonconfinement, postconfinement, preconfinement, reconfinement, self-confinement, solitary confinement, unconfinement

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