- quarantine
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noun
confinement, custody, detachment, medical segregation, period of detention, period of isolation, restraint of movement, sanitary cordon, seclusion, segregation, separation, strict isolation
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index
captivity, confine, constraint (imprisonment), contain (enclose), detain (hold in custody), detention, durance, exclude, immure, insulate, isolate, ostracism, seclude, sequester (seclude),
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
- quarantine
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n.A period of time, condition, or place of isolation for someone who has been exposed to an infectious disease, intended to prevent the disease from spreading into the community.v.quarantine
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
