Usually means: Restriction of freedom or movement.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word confinement:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. confinement: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. confinement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confinement: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confinement: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confinement: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confinement, confinement: Wordnik
  7. confinement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confinement: Wiktionary
  9. confinement: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confinement: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confinement: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. confinement: Dictionary.com
  13. confinement: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Confinement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Confinement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. confinement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. confinement: Rhymezone
  18. Confinement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. confinement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. confinement: Free Dictionary
  21. confinement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. confinement: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. confinement: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confinement: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. confinement: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Confinement: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. Explosives (No longer online)

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noun:  The act of confining or the state of being confined.
noun:  (dated) Lying-in, time of giving birth.
noun:  lockdown

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