Usually means: Confinement to home by law.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word house arrest:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. house arrest: Merriam-Webster
  2. house arrest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. house arrest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. house arrest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. house arrest: Vocabulary.com
  6. house-arrest: Wordnik
  7. house arrest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. house arrest: Wiktionary
  9. house arrest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. house arrest: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. house arrest: Dictionary.com
  12. House Arrest (M*A*S*H), House Arrest (TV series), House Arrest (The Sopranos), House Arrest (album), House Arrest (film), House Arrest (song), House arrest (disambiguation), House arrest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. house arrest: Rhymezone
  14. house arrest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. house arrest: FreeDictionary.org
  16. house arrest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. house arrest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. house arrest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. House-arrest, house arrest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. House-arrest, house arrest: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. House Arrest: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See house_arrests as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (house arrest)

noun:  (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.

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