imprisonment

[ UK /ɪmpɹˈɪzənmənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɹɪzənmənt/ ]

NOUN

the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
the state of being imprisoned
his ignominious incarceration in the local jail
he was held in captivity until he died
he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon
the imprisonment of captured soldiers

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Now comes the news that her shifty lawyer father has only 48 hours to raise a lot of money or face financial ruin and imprisonment.
A libeller may be punished by fine, imprisonment, or the amputation of the ears.
Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way. The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
The police had a good defence to the claims in false imprisonment and unlawful detention. Times, Sunday Times
If John Doe is sentenced to a term of imprisonment and later goes out of his mind, the state may continue to keep him in the penitentiary for the duration of his sentence.
These range from at least 10 years imprisonment to death sentences. Times, Sunday Times
She was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for poisoning and attempted murder.
They were found to have presided over miscarriages of justice that led to wrongful imprisonments.
Both were convicted of indecently assaulting one victim, two charges of kidnapping, one of attempted kidnapping and three of false imprisonment.
You were convicted by a jury in 1984 of murder of your common-law wife and sentenced to life imprisonment, with the tariff set at 12 years.

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