Usually means: Confinement as punishment for crime.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. imprisonment: Merriam-Webster
  2. imprisonment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imprisonment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. imprisonment: Vocabulary.com
  5. Imprisonment, imprisonment: Wordnik
  6. imprisonment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. imprisonment: Wiktionary
  8. imprisonment: Dictionary.com
  9. imprisonment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Imprisonment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. imprisonment: Rhymezone
  12. imprisonment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. imprisonment: FreeDictionary.org
  14. imprisonment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. imprisonment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. imprisonment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. imprisonment: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. imprisonment: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imprisonment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imprisonment: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imprisonment: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.

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