The U.S. incarceration rate is the highest in the world.
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Incarceration
//ɪŋˌkɑː(ɹ)səˈɹeɪʃən//
Synonyms for "incarceration" (51 found)
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31 translations across 20 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- բանտարկություն noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- azadlıqdan məhrumetmə noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Catalan
1 entries- encarcerament noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 下獄 /下狱 noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- 有期徒刑 noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- 監禁 /监禁 noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Czech
2 entries- věznění noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- zauzlení noun (formerly, strangulation, as in hernia)
Finnish
2 entries- kurouma noun (constriction of the hernial sac)
- vangitseminen noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
French
1 entries- incarcération noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
German
1 entries- Einkerkerung noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Greek
1 entries- φυλάκιση noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַאֲסָר noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Indonesian
1 entries- hukuman penjara noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Italian
1 entries- incarcerazione noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Japanese
1 entries- 投獄 noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Malayalam
3 entries- ജയിലിലാക്കല് noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- ജയിൽ വാസം noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- ബന്ധനം noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Persian
1 entries- حبس noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Polish
2 entries- inkarceracja noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- pozbawienie wolności noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Portuguese
1 entries- encarceramento noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Russian
2 entries- заключе́ние noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- лише́ние свобо́ды noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Spanish
3 entries- carcelazo noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- encarcelación noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- encarcelamiento noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Ukrainian
2 entries- позба́влення во́лі noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
- ув'язнення noun (act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment — see also imprisonment)
Sample sentences
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Experts suggest that the rise in incarceration, and the growth in the number of people with prison records, negatively contribute to the ability of some of these non-working men to get a job.
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Yanni was trapped in a circle of addiction and incarceration.
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The worry of the Kabyles is amnesia since they forget all they've been through and those who persecuted them with weapons and incarceration.
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