incarceration

See also: incarcération

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin incarcerātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)

1. (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
   • 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 183:

     […] Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.

2. (surgery, dated) strangulation, as in hernia.
3. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Derived terms

• decarceration
• disincarceration
• overincarceration
• reincarceration

 

Related terms

• incarcerate

Translations

act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment

• Armenian: բանտարկություն (hy) (bantarkutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: azadlıqdan məhrumetmə
• Catalan: encarcerament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 下獄／下狱 (zh) (xiàyù), 監禁／监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn), (limited term) 有期徒刑 (zh) (yǒuqí túxíng)

• Czech: věznění
• Finnish: vangitseminen (fi)
• French: incarcération (fr) f
• German: Einkerkerung f
• Hebrew: מַאֲסָר (he) m (ma'asár)
• Indonesian: hukuman penjara (id)
• Italian: incarcerazione (it)
• Japanese: 投獄 (ja) (とうごく, tōgoku)
• Malayalam: ബന്ധനം (ml) (bandhanaṁ), ജയിൽ വാസം (jayil vāsaṁ), ജയിലിലാക്കല് (jayililākkal)
• Polish: inkarceracja (pl) f, pozbawienie wolności (pl) n
• Portuguese: encarceramento (pt) m
• Russian: лише́ние свобо́ды (ru) n (lišénije svobódy), заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije) (в тюрьму)
• Spanish: encarcelación (es) f, encarcelamiento (es) m
• Ukrainian: ув'язнення n (uvʺjaznennja), позба́влення во́лі n (pozbávlennja vóli)

formerly, strangulation, as in hernia

• Czech: zauzlení

constriction of the hernial sac

• Finnish: kurouma