arrestment

noun

Definition of arrestmentnext
1
as in arrest
the act of taking or holding under one's control by authority of law the arrestment of the bank president for embezzlement was accomplished as quietly as possible

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2
as in cessation
the stopping of a process or activity the arrestment of all brain activity in the patient

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  1. arrest
  2. cessation
  3. halt
  4. ending
Noun
  • And the latest arrest comes just over a month after a Chinese woman in the eastern city of Leipzig was detained on suspicion of foreign agent activities and passing on information regarding arms deliveries.
    Carlo Angerer, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • But the United States has not attempted mass arrests of migrants since 1954, when border agents rounded up more than 1 million people living in Texas and California and forcibly transported them to Mexico.
    Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2024
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  • Instead, what the country needs now is an interim cessation of hostilities that largely reflects current realities on the ground.
    Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The same family of contaminants triggered past recalls of the heartburn drug Zantac, the diabetes drug metformin and the smoking cessation medication Chantix.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
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  • The Power Of Connected Manufacturing In today’s manufacturing plants, when a motor seizes up, the assembly line comes to a halt.
    Chris Turlica, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • And everything that people hate about politics went on steroids: after Trump abused his power, work on anything productive out of Washington ground to a halt.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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  • Photo: Kimberley French/A24 Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of Heretic.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • There’s this extraordinary moment where the ending of the Jan 6th hearings were concluding at the very moment of his entire congressional career.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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