false imprisonment
false imprisonment · false imprisonments
Freiheitsberaubung
The intentional restriction of a person's movement within any area without legal…The intentional restriction of a person's movement within any area without legal authority, justification, or the restrained person's permission.
» They received a windfall as recompense for false imprisonment, but it doesn't even begin to make up for lost time.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)The intentional restriction of a person's movement within any area without legal authority, justification, or the restrained person's permission.
Freiheitsberaubung
(law) confinement without legal authority
Examples
1 sentencesThey received a windfall as recompense for false imprisonment, but it doesn't even begin to make up for lost time.
Translations
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By meaning 1
intentional restriction of a person's movement within any area without legal authority:
Forms
plural: false imprisonments| Singular | false imprisonment |
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable