imprisonment
C1UK /ɪmˈprɪznmənt/US /ɪmˈprɪznmənt/
Meaning
noun
the act of putting somebody in a prison or another place from which they cannot escape; the state of being there
“to be sentenced to life imprisonment for murder”
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“There, in my little office, I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening”
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